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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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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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recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …
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hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …
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productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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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 … growth in total factor productivity. …
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of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers … relations into account. We find important productivity spillover effects from plants in upstream industries. Interestingly, a …
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This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...
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