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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412738
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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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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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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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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Dispersion in dispersion: measuring establishment-level differences in productivity
Cunningham, Cindy; Foster, Lucia; Grim, Cheryl; … - 2021
We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a...
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