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A product market theory of worker training
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004 - revised: February 2004
employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …
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High-speed railways and firms total factor productivity : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio; Ferrara, Antonella Rita; … - 2023
The focus of this study is to assess the causal impact of the connection of a local area to a high-speed rail network (HSR) on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). The quasi-random location of the HSR station in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia is exploited in a Difference-in Differences...
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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution....
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Nowcasting business cycles using toll data
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across...
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Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …-sponsored training ; labor market frictions ; product market competition ; matched worker-firm data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975223
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"Make-or-buy" of peripheral services in manufacturing : evidence from Spanish plant-level data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2013
correlated with increases in the plant's market share as well as increases in product market competition and product prices … industry. -- make-or-buy ; peripheral services ; manufacturing ; market share ; competition …
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Public funding and corporate innovation
Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017
We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
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Innovation, productivity, and training
Dostie, Benoît - 2014
The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms' human capital investments and innovation performance,...
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The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891832
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Not for the profit, but for the training? : gender differences in training in the for-profit and non-profit sectors
Dostie, Benoît; Javdani, Mohsen - 2017
We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of firm-sponsored training. We find that women in the for-profit sector are less likely to receive classroom training, and receive shorter classroom training courses. However, we...
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