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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency : The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya - 2015
technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified …This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …
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Time is on My Side : Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2018
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance : A Panel Data Study
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2018
We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms' performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control group of firms that did not receive support using a combination of...
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Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-Level Collective Agreements : Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data
Garnero, Andrea - 2018
How do firm-level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi-level bargaining system? Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity (with respect to sector-level agreements). Relying on a...
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Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth : Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
Hornbeck, Richard - 2019
We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity : Does Aggregate Demand Matter?
Gries, Thomas - 2018
Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
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Migration and Firm-Level Productivity
Fabling, Richard; Maré, David C.; Stevens, Philip - 2022
We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity, wages and workforce composition. Jointly estimating production functions and firm- level wage bill equations, we compare migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens...
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Misallocation and Inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
Oh, Donghyun - 2009
productivity are similar. Second, unlike in previous studies, the efficiency change is the main contributor to the earlier study …
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