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We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...
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This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …
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-market participation having generally larger positive effects on productivity and negative effects on unit labor costs. All four channels …, the marginal productivity gains of foreign-ownership are greatly reduced when the firm is already an exporter. Breaking …
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step forward occurring following Deng Xiaoping's "South Trip" in 1992. We find that FDI had much larger effect on TFP … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …
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evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … – where the firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi while the least productive firms serve the home market only and … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …
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We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
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strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. -- foreign acquisitions ; FDI …We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer … ; earnings ; wage differentials ; productivity ; difference-in-differences matching ; employer effects ; Hungary …
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things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …. Using foreign direct investment (FDI) as a measure for capital flows, we present empirical evidence which largely confirms …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
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