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East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …
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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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MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred …
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …
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recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …
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