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-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
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This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …
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We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction …
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This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and nonmultinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
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We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
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We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international trade integration is associated with higher labour shares …
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countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and …-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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foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
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