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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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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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the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …
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the Financial Statement data in the Finnish manufacturing sector, we examine the sources of carbon-productivity growth and … of carbon productivity growth whereas the contribution of entering and exiting firms was negative. In addition, the … allocation of emissions across firms appeared to be inefficient, with a negative impact on carbon productivity growth over the …
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Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
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, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal...
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In this paper we empirically explore the 'make-or-buy' decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants distributed in all manufacturing industries in Spain. In particular, survey respondents are asked...
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Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour … productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper …
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...
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