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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2024
examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535654
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COVID-19: erroneous modelling and its policy implications
Bar-On, Yinon; Baron, Tatiana; Cornfeld, Ofer; Milo, Ron; … - 2021
Research in Economics on COVID-19 posits an economy subject to disease dynamics, which are often seriously misspecified in terms of speed and scale. Using a social planner problem, we show that such misspecifications lead to misguided policy. Erroneously characterizing a relatively slow-moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491161
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An optimal allocation of asylum seekers
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2024
We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502780
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Industry-wide work rules and productivity : evidence from Argentine union contract data
Lamarche, Carlos - 2013
investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199012
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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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Within-country poverty convergence: evidence from Mexico
López-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; … - 2020
Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262928
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Some thoughts on macroeconomic fluctuations and the timing of labor market reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance of several conflicting effects, it seems clear that a reform … should be accompanied by an expansionary macroeconomic policy. This makes structural reform more problematic in the context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414121
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The race of man and machine: implications of technology when abilities and demand constraints matter
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2021
impact of AI on jobs, inequality, wages, labor productivity and long-run GDP growth are explored. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517812
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Is there a trade-off between employment and productivity?
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of "decent work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207261
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Industrial espionage and productivity
Glitz, Albrecht; Meyersson, Erik - 2017
's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670848