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Big data and firm-level productivity : a cross-country comparison
Andres, Raphaela; Niebel, Thomas; Sack, Robin - 2024
Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity … analytics (BDA) on labour productivity (LP) at the firm level. We find that a simple binary measure indicating the mere usage of …
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Menstrual health, worker productivity and well-being among female Bangladeshi garment workers
Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2019
We conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on a sample of 1,000 female garment workers in three factories in Bangladesh, off ering access to free sanitary pads at work to 500 of the workers. We cross-randomised participation in information sessions for hygienic menstrual health care...
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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022
new ways of production that may increase productivity. So far, however, only very few studies investigated likely … productivity effects of AI at the firm-level; presumably because of lacking data. We exploit unique survey data on firms’ adoption … of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819685
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The political economy of multilateral aid funds
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2016
In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...
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Agribusiness trade between Brazil and China : pillars and opportunities
Nonnenberg, Marcelo José Braga; Lima, Uallace Moreira; … - 2021
In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and debate whether there are obstacles or opportunities to increase trade between the two economies. Following an institutional and historical analysis, we provide a statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624873
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Growth impacts of the exchange rate and technology
Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro - 2016
The aim of this paper is to assess whether the impacts of real exchange rate undervaluation and domestic technological capabilities on growth are stable across development levels. On the one hand, a real exchange undervaluation measure is constructed based on the purchasing-power-parity theory...
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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?
Hattendorff, Christian - 2012
The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...
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A note on automation, stagnation, and the implications of a robot tax
Gasteiger, Emanuel; Prettner, Klaus - 2017
We analyze the long-run growth effects of automation in the canonical overlapping generations framework. While automation implies constant returns to capital within this model class (even in the absence of technological progress), we show that it does not have the potential to lead to positive...
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Structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s
Silva, Alexandre Messa Peixoto da - 2015
This paper investigates the sources of structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s. On that purpose, it uses the input-output structural decomposition analysis and introduces a method to correct the influence of prices on the time behavior of the technical coefficients, making them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056016
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Technological learning systems, competitiveness and development
Viotti, Eduardo Baumgratz - 2015
resources depletion as a way to compensate for its relatively low initial productivity. The cases of four latecomers - Brazil … very large increases in their shares of world technological productions, greatly shrinking the productivity and per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023794