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the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …
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Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity … that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests …
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
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This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …
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We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings … experiences productivity gains in manufacturing, there are substantial local increases in employment and average earnings. For …. Strikingly, local productivity growth in manufacturing reduces local inequality, as it raises earnings of local less …
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substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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return to total assets or productivity for firms who received support compared with the control group. …
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preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or … unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …
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This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...
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; trade ; income per person ; productivity ; geography ; institutions ; diversity … institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness … income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …
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