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, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
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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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Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We …
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We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international tradeintegration is associated with higher labour shares in …
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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …
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Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … productivity. Secondly, we draw attention to recent modeling and estimation effort that reveals novel sources of heterogeneity, non …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …
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