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Decoupling economic growth and energy use : an empirical cross-country analysis for 10 manufacturing sectors
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004
exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334858
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The impact of WTO accession on Chinese firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2019
This paper examines the impact of WTO membership on the extensive and intensive margins of product and labor market power of Chinese manufacturing firms during the period 1999- 2006. We first identify a firm's regime of competitiveness, corresponding to a combination of a product market setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026039
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Measuring productivity dispersion
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2017
Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622903
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Productivity gains from offshoring : an empirical analysis for the Netherlands
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007
home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373831
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Does trade integration imply growth in Latin America? : evidence from a dynamic spatial spillover model
Blasques, F.; Gorgi, P.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Sampi, J. - 2023
To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a multilevel spatial production network model with time-varying parameters. The theoretical model is established for a multi-country and multi-sectoral economy. The reduced-form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233425
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The impact of trade liberalization on the return to education in Vietnam : wage versus employment effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan Hong Quang - 2010
Several studies have identified the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries on the return to education within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness. These studies have typically estimated the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386195
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International trade with firm heterogeneity in factor shares
Namini, Julian Emami - 2012
This paper presents a trade model with capital and labor as factors of production. The main contribution of this paper is that it considers a new type of firm heterogeneity, which is empirically relevant: firms in this paper differ with respect to their factor shares in production. Therefore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377609
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Assessing the impact of trade policy on labor markets and production
Francois, Joseph F. - 2004
This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects of economic integration and globalization. First, it provides a broad-brush overview of the ex-post literature linking trade to performance, such as measures of worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335212
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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - 2017
-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772937
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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
Embedding the efficient bargaining model into the R. Hall (1988) approach for estimating price-cost margins shows that both imperfections in the product and labor markets generate a wedge between factor elasticities in the production function and their corresponding shares in revenue. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377461