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Growing productivity without growing wages : the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline
Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017 - First version: November 2015, this version: March 29, 2017
The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...
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Firms left behind : emigration and firm productivity
Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017
total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781018
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Contagious exporting and foreign ownership : evidence from firms in Shanghai using a Bayesian spatial bivariate probit model
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2018
Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on whether the fixed costs associated with doing so are at least covered by the incremental operating profits. This paper provides evidence that success for some firms in attracting...
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Former foreign affiliates : cast out and outperformed?
Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Poelhekke, Steven - 2014
similar control plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity …
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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014
evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391833
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All-around trade liberalization and firm-level employment : theory and evidence from China
Rodríguez López, Antonio; Yu, Miaojie - 2017
job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …
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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010
We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270354
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How does working-time flexibility affect workers' productivity in a routine job? : evidence from a field experiment
Boltz, Marie; Cockx, Bart; Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; … - 2020
working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into … start and stop working increase global productivity by as much as 50 percent, 40 percent of which is induced by sorting. …
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Ownership concentration and share valuation : evidence from Germany
Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999
Concentrated ownership of large listed companies is widespread throughout the world, and Germany is typical in this respect. This paper proposes a method of distinguishing empirically between the beneficial and harmful effects of ownership concentration, and applies it to German data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781688