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facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … productivity and profits of other facilities and firms owned by the acquiring parent company after a change in ownership. …
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of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …
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that change is often stagnant or slow for long periods followed by a sudden boost in productivity during a crisis. Moreover …, it accounts for the fact that different firms in the same industry often have significant productivity differences. The …
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Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate them or make them wary of outperforming peers. This...
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We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
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Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring this asset has been notoriously difficult, however. Differently to other intangible assets, firms do not build up organisation capital primarily by monetary investment but rather...
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In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …
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We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …
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We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about pound;80,000 per small chain supermarket store …
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We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity … might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and … thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …
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