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This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric …
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from the EUKLEMS database. Our main findings are as follows. Over 2000-2005, market sector labour productivity grew at 2 … innovation contributed 61% (=(1.24+0.45)/2.74)of labour productivity growth over the period …
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designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters …
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We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed … and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide … information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity …
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Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
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Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …
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We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …
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