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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker …, not only temporarily, but also in the steady state. These results are found using pooled annual data for a large panel of … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …
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We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …
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dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
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competitors. Because workers participate in the returns on investment while only firms bear the costs, investment is inefficiently … low. A binding minimum wage can achieve the first-best level of investment, both in the short run for a given number of …
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banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …
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) stresses the role of labor deepening, including the reallocation from agriculture, while more recent analysis points to the … role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for …
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The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … various regimes. Using German establishment-level panel data, we estimate a two-regime model of replacement and expansion … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical …
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participation. We match two decades of UK panel data on the population of firms to all program participants. IV estimates find … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to …
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, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …
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