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understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution. -- intra-industry trade ; heterogeneous …
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We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals using quasi-experimental data for Denmark which switched from external (where reimbursements are based on prices of similar products in foreign countries) to internal reference...
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We study the impact of intra-industry trade and capital mobility on steady state welfare and on the stability properties of two countries with identical technologies and preferences. We consider a two-factor overlapping generations model, featuring one-sector of differentiated goods with taste...
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This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a … firm productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find … that a larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand …
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it improves aggregate productivity net of transport costs. We show that this condition is likely to be met by a reduction …
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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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Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity … that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests …
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
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This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …
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