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develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …. -- International labour movements ; face-to-face meetings ; business trips ; growth ; productivity …
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The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper … examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model …
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identified in the structural literature through which EPL-induced job reallocation affects productivity, innovation, and overall …
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impact of AI on jobs, inequality, wages, labor productivity and long-run GDP growth are explored. …
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the …
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Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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