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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee paneldata set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimationand analysis of models with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522215
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Compositionand the Measurement of Labor Productivityin the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appearsto be achieving impressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863264
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Stuck between Surplus and Shortage : Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756317
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764168
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An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment : Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector
Clayton, Tony - 2009
-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764658
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765301
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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Raising the Overtime Premium and Reducing the Standard Workweek : Short-Run Impacts on U.S. Manufacturing
Sagyndykova, Galiya - 2019
disaggregated labor input categories, on aver- age both policy changes exhibit negative effects on the growth rates of industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863798
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Between Firm Changes in Earnings Inequality : The Dominant Role of Industry Effects
Haltiwanger, John - 2020
the U.S. is accounted for by industry effects. These industry effects stem from rising inter-industry earnings … differentials and not from changing distribution of employment across industries. We also find the rising inter-industry earnings … components of the recent literature: one focuses on firm effects and the other on occupation effects. The link via industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840455
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Innovation, Firm Survival and Productivity : The State of the Art
Ugur, Mehmet - 2020
We review the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical findings of the literature that investigates the effects of innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth. We aim to contribute to the ongoing debate along...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823863