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Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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Speeding up the product cycle : the role of host country reforms

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011

We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...

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Divestment and engagement : the effect of green investors on corporate carbon emissions

Kahn, Matthew E.; Matsusaka, John G.; Shu, Chong - 2023

management. We focus on public pension funds, classifying them as green or non-green based on which political party controlled …

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The role of firm dynamics in the green transition : carbon productivity decomposition in Finnish manufacturing

Kuosmanen, Natalia; Maczulskij, Terhi - 2023

This paper explores the importance of firm dynamics, including entry and exit and the allocation of carbon emissions across firms, on the green transition. Using the 2000–2019 firm-level register data on greenhouse gas emissions matched with the Financial Statement data in the Finnish...

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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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Gender in jeopardy! : the role of opponent gender in high-stakes competition

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2016

Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against men. This result is surprising, but emerges with...

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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …

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