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This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric …
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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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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical …
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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per employee results in statistically significant productivity gains. Furthermore, such productivity gains are found to …-executive employees and stock option aimed at incentivizing executives. Finally the positive effects on productivity, profitability, wages …
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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In the absence of discrimination, there should be no wage-productivity differentials as relative wages should be equal … to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes …
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"We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy measures...
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