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The quality-complementarity hypothesis: theory and evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2009
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277014
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Demographic divide and labor migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region
Tosun, Mehmet S. - 2011
This paper provides a demographic outlook of the Euro-Mediterranean region and then shows the economic and fiscal consequences of such demographic differences within a two-region model with international labor mobility. International labor mobility is also examined through an externalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282460
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Consumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274534
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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - 2003
This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone?s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261592
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Trade, quality upgrading and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector
Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2007
the late-1994 peso crisis as a source of variation and a variety of proxies for plant productivity, I find that initially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277010
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North-South technology spillovers: the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2008
larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268715
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333318
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261809
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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2004
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261956
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073