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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice - 2012
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications
Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019
dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation : The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Hirsch, Boris - 2014
productivity of a firm, the more likely it is to opt for centralized wage formation where it can hide behind less productive firms …
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Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Lerche, Adrian; Schönberg, Uta; … - 2023
We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...
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Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation
Baziki, Selva - 2016
This paper provides new evidence on the reallocation of workers across firms and industries with different technologies in response to increased import competition from developing countries. Using employer-employee matched data for the Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative...
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
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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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014
, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces : A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice - 2006
productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …
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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …
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