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Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
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Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
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Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …
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the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …
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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ …
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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …
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specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …
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This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
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This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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