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the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …
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Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity … that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests …
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This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …
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productivity are similar. Second, unlike in previous studies, the efficiency change is the main contributor to the earlier study …This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential …
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This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …
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We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings … experiences productivity gains in manufacturing, there are substantial local increases in employment and average earnings. For …. Strikingly, local productivity growth in manufacturing reduces local inequality, as it raises earnings of local less …
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substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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return to total assets or productivity for firms who received support compared with the control group. …
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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …
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Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...
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