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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

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Combinatorial Discrete Choice : A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decisions

Arkolakis, Costas; Eckert, Fabian; Shi, Rowan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...

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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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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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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments

Roux, Nicolás de; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...

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Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle : Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms

Diao, Xinshen; Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light on this puzzle, we disaggregate firms in the...

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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States

Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...

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Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing : Evidence from Certification Elections

Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Johnson, Matthew S.; Tadjfar, Nagisa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We assess whether and why trade competition partly explains the sharp decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union certification elections by 4.5% among workers in...

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