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A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
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unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008 economic census and 2005 population census, this paper explains spatial clusters … first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …
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productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …
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-market participation having generally larger positive effects on productivity and negative effects on unit labor costs. All four channels …, the marginal productivity gains of foreign-ownership are greatly reduced when the firm is already an exporter. Breaking …
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with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … ; skill investments ; productivity differences …
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structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions … a lesser extent large firms) and the main winners are small firms. -- firm size ; productivity ; labor regulation …
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adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that … data predicts 10 percent lower aggregate labor productivity in East Germany. …
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study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …
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also by pushing searchers into low-productivity own-account work. …
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China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts forward a framework of vertical … connect smallholders with modern agriculture and achieve food security in China. Using household-level data from China, this … study examines the impact of hiring machinery services on farm productivity, food security, and rural households' welfare …
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