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unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …
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We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative … IP, launches and productivity, controlling for media exposure and firm heterogeneity. Launch activity is associated with … higher SME productivity, especially in the service sector. High-quality launches and medium-size firms help drive this result. …
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) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … ; gender ; productivity ; profitability ; Germany …
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) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …
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education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even …
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productivity and a risky technology with productivity subject to sizeable shocks. Strict EPL makes the risky technology relatively … less attractive because it is more costly to shed workers upon receiving a low productivity draw. We calibrate the model … mechanism can explain a considerable portion of the slowdown in productivity in the EU relative to the US since 1995 …
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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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