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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara - 2014
) from upper-tail knowledge. As a proxy for the historical presence of knowledge elites, we use city-level subscriptions to … firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …
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The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Garicano, Luis - 2010
Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity … and organization of U.S. lawyers and use the equilibrium model of knowledge hierarchies in Garicano and Rossi …
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Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge : Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2022
utilization of acquired knowledge. We show how the equilibrium assignment of individuals to hierarchical positions varies with the …
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Mion, Giordiano; Opromolla, Luca David; … - 2021
The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm’s actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm...
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Products and Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
Firms' decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...
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Global Engagement and the Innovation Activities of Firms
Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021
organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … detailed measures of knowledge outputs, knowledge investments, and sources of existing knowledge. We find that globally engaged … information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation …
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Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity : Theory and Evidence from U.S. States
Iranzo, Susana - 2010
The recent literature on local schooling externalities in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive externalities from the share of college graduates can often be identified. This paper proposes a simple...
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices – including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives – are mediated through employee decision-making and...
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G. - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
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