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It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India …
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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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studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …
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efficient were introduced later in India following the macroeconomic crisis in 1991. However, whether the post-1991 growth is an … while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is …
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firm-related characteristics (e.g., capital intensity, productivity) contribute significantly. However, considerable wage …
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How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …
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and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …
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We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
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Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …
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We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …
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