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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009

-industry covariance between size and productivity across countries, and this variation is affected by the presence of idiosyncratic …-country patterns of the within-industry covariance between productivity and size and thus help to explain the observed differences in …

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Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation : evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants

Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …

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The productivity puzzle in business services

Kritikos, Alexander; Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2021

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries. Using a German firm-level dataset of 700,000...

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Firm productivity growth and skill

Maré, Dave C.; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Fabling, Richard - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from Statistics New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and Integrated Data Infrastructure...

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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries

Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …

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Opening the black box : task and skill mix and productivity dispersion

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022

early life interventions, intergenerational mobility, parental investments, fertility, health care provisionAAn important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input...

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Business cycles and start-ups across industries : an empirical analysis of German regions

Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018

, including the innovative part of manufacturing, are only influenced by changes in the cyclical component of unemployment, while …

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

Kuosmanen, Natalia; Maczulskij, Terhi - 2023

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 manufacturing sector, we examine the sources of carbon-productivity growth and …

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Was Robert Gibrat right? : a test based on the graphical model methodology

Guerzoni, Marco; Riso, Luigi; Vivarelli, Marco - 2023

Using both regression analysis and an unsupervised graphical model approach (never applied before to this issue), we confirm the rejection of the Gibrat's law when our firm-level data are considered over the entire investigated period, while the opposite is true when we allow for market...

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Learning-by-doing and productivity growth among high-skilled workers: evidence from the treatment of heart attacks

Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021

Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we...

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