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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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This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks. While evidence that richer, better governed societies suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes...
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things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage … thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …
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assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or … services. We show the split between damage to consumption and investment productivity matters for the dynamic consequences of …
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Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...
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In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …
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panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …
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substantially afterwards, without a corresponding negative trend in manufacturing productivity. These results are seemingly at odds … responsiveness to shocks, diminished significantly since 2000, coinciding with the slowdown in manufacturing productivity. Our …
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