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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...

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Self-Employment Within the Firm

Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the prevalence of product customization. We then develop a...

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How Do You Find a Good Manager?

Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the … impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers …

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Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions

Fafchamps, Marcel; Kebede, Bereket - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and equity in different agency structures. In terms of equity, subjects appropriate all surplus when they can, and share equally when they have to negotiate. They achieve high...

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The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Buffington, Catherine; Goldschlag, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per employee) is much more strongly related to establishment...

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Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment

Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper proposes that strong financial, judicial, and labor market institutions provide comparative advantage in clean industries, and thereby improve a country's environmental quality. Five complementary tests support this hypothesis. First, industries that depend on institutions are...

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Free-Riding Yankees : Canada and the Panama Canal

Galiani, Sebastián; Jaramillo, Luis F.; Uribe-Castro, Mateo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the impact of the Panama Canal on the development of Canada's manufacturing sector in the years from 1900 to 1939. Using newly digitized county-level data from the Census of Manufactures and a market-access approach, we exploit the plausibly exogenous nature of this historical episode...

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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth

Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

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De-skilling : Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The long-standing view in US economic history is the shift in manufacturing in the nineteenth century from the artisan shop to the mechanized factory led to "labor deskilling." Craft workers were displaced by mix of semi-skilled operatives, unskilled workers, and a reduced force of mechanics to...

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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay

Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

. We derive experiment-based estimates of the effect of an analytics tool on SME outcomes, analyzing the randomized …

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