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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068471
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867157
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052546
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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity : Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
Mahy, Benoit - 2015
productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth : The Case of Chinese Provinces
Heshmati, Almas - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147134
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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dist...
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946575
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Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters
Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of …
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