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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...

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Are workers with a long commute less productive? : an empirical analysis of absenteeism

Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 2009

We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …

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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,...

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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2009 - Current version: May 2009

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different …

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Made and created in China : super processors and two-way heterogeneity

Chen, Zhiyuan; Erbahar, Aksel; Zi, Yuan - 2019

In this paper, we show that there exists a special breed of firms that are active in both ordinary and processing exports. Contrary to the existing literature that describes processing firms as inferior, these mixed firms are superior to other firms in multiple dimensions, and hence we call them...

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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...

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Explaining the wealth holdings of different cohorts : productivity growth and social security

Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999

productivity growth and Social Security. The Netherlandsexperienced a steady growth after World War II. At the same time, it also … built up a very extensive welfaresystem. Our empirical findings show that productivity growth goes a long way in explaining … differences inincome across cohorts. Productivity growth and Social Security can explain most, if not all, of thedifferences in …

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Productivity convergence in OECD manufacturing industries

Carree, Martin Anthony; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … barriers preventing catch-up to occur. We find the level of averagelabor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, to be …

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Food security and agricultural sustainability : a comparative multi-country assessment of critical success factors

Nijkamp, Peter; Vindigni, Gabriella - 2000

(bothfarming and agro-food). An attempt is made to explain differences intotal factor productivity in agriculture indifferent …

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Profit shifting and productivity mismeasurement

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Beetsma, Roel - 2000

This note identifies profit shifting in response to cross-countrydifferences in corporate tax rates as a source of productivitymismeasurement. To quantify the magnitude of mismeasurement, theprofit-shifting effect is isolated from other possible effects ofcorporatetax rates changes on real...

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