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Entry, Exit and Productivity : Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2007
paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - 2021
. A brief empirical analysis of the impact of firing costs on the size of exiting firms supports the model's conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316706
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009
-industry covariance between size and productivity across countries, but this covariance varies significantly across countries and is … calibrated to match the observed cross-country patterns of the within-industry covariance between productivity and size and thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153504
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Exports and Productivity Growth : First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
. Using the GPS method and a large panel data set for German manufacturing firms, we estimate the relationship between a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317068
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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?
Baumann, Julian - 2016
the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999002
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Learning-by-Doing and Productivity Growth Among High-Skilled Workers : Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks
Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021
Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324559
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861413
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Poschke, Markus - 2021
Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324800
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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241098
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What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data
Liang, Zheng - 2017
of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private … also supported for manufacturing: small upstream and downstream firms seem to be more important for manufacturing … entrepreneurship. For both sectors, entrepreneurship is positively related to city size, the share of young adults and the elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945239