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have also contributed to increasing productivity and long-term growth. We explore empirically the impact of GVC … participation on productivity in Estonia using firm-level data from 2000 to 2016. We find that higher GVC participation at the … industry level significantly boosts productivity at both the industry and the firm level. Frontier firms, large firms, and …
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. Interestingly, firms experiencing sales losses and those with lower pre-crisis productivity were more likely to resort to … digitalization, suggesting that the pandemic could help narrow productivity gaps …
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A recent World Bank enterprise survey identified access to finance as the top constraint to Doing Business in Nigeria …
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We develop a stylized balance sheet framework to help identify ‘quasi-fiscal’ components of central bank crisis interventions and show how sources of fiscal risk are created from both the new claims and how they are funded. Combining central bank balance sheet data with survey evidence from...
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where labor productivity is affected by country-specific climate variables-defined as deviations of temperature and … world real GDP per capita by more than 7 percent by 2100. On the other hand, abiding by the Paris Agreement, thereby …-lasting adverse impact on real output in various states and economic sectors, and on labor productivity and employment …
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Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...
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, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …
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This paper analyzes the effects of selected structural reforms on output and employment in the short and medium term. It uses a comprehensive cross-country firm-level dataset covering both advanced and emerging market economies over the period 2003-2014. In line with previous studies, it finds...
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productivity shortfalls relative to precrisis trends. Policy choices preceding the crisis and in its immediate aftermath influenced …
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energy market reforms. This study uses manufacturingfirm census data from Ethiopia to identify productivity losses …-10 percent. We found nonlinear productivity losses at different quantilesalong the productivity distribution. Firms at higher …
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