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, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
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We study the effect of releasing public information about productivity or monetary shocks when agents learn from …
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Between one-third and one-half of employees participate directly in company performance through profit sharing, gainsharing, employee ownership, or stock options. This flies in the face of concerns about the free rider problem and worker risk aversion in group incentives, and raises many...
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, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …
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leisure. Business cycles are assumed to be driven by permanent and stationary neutral productivity shocks, permanent …
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productivity heterogeneity. In this model, a firm enters a market if it makes profits by reaching a single consumer there and pays …
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Economists emphasize two channels through which import liberalization affects productivity, one operating between and … to 2002. First, in the long run, import liberalization lowers productivity in domestic industries through selection. This …, liberalization also generates technological learning that can on net raise domestic productivity. Third, for short time horizons of …
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We use firm-level data for U.S. multinational enterprises (MNE) and the model of firm heterogeneity first presented in Helpman, Melitz, and Yeaple (2004) to make four empirical contributions. First, we show that the most productive U.S. firms invest in a larger number of foreign countries and...
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Brazil, Mexico and a few other Latin American republics enjoyed faster industrialization after 1870 than did the rest of Latin America and even faster than the rest of the poor periphery (except East Asia). How much of this economic performance was due to more accommodating institutions and...
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quarter of their annual pre-liberalization salary. The increase in the growth rate of labor productivity in the aftermath of …
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