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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe's top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269441
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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280699
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262784
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261556
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261614
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … effects from domestic product market competition, labor market competition, or import penetration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261809
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262067
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Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - 2003
We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262229
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262315
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Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2010
increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper uses a natural experiment from Ukraine to estimate the causal effect of a … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269698