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This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …
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/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …
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investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor …This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …
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data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …
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easing entrepreneurial investments for credit-constrained individuals whose investment possibilities depend on their income … entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
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This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …
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In this paper we explore the role of the sectoral composition of gross domestic product (GDP) in explaining the behaviour of youth labour markets. We provide a comparison of the behaviour of youth unemployment rates, employment-population rates, and labour force participation rates between...
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impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …
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