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, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …
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mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …
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Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … productivity that is associated with more or less innovative activities …
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We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical data from the Ifo Institute's Business Climate Survey. We find that firms' forecasts improve as they age. We also exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms...
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-equilibrium overlapping generations model to incorporate realistic patterns of fertility and mortality and shocks to productivity, fertility … fertility and mortality shocks, but that this is not the case for productivity shocks, for which the pension systems actually …
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in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …
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decomposition of total factor productivity growth …
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Understanding the nature and magnitude of resource reallocation, particularly as it relates to productivity growth, is … important both because it affects how we model and interpret aggregate productivity dynamics, and also because market structure … reallocation and productivity dynamics for the U.S. and other countries comes from a single industry: manufacturing. Building upon …
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, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …
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