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The Complementary Role of Exports and R&D Investments as Sources of Productivity Growth

Aw, Bee Yan - 2010

This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in Ramp;D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in Ramp;D...

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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New Hr Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. And U.K

Bartel, Ann P. - 2015

This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...

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Sizing Up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017

We argue that existence of public good does not necessarily imply market failure, and illustrate this point in the context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum because the first exporter's action creates an...

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Competition in the Computer Industry

Goolsbee, Austan - 2021

This paper estimates the relative price sensitivity of individuals' choice of whether to buy computers online versus in retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of competition between the two channels, the paper...

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Whither Flat Panel Displays?

Krishna, Kala; Thursby, Marie C. - 2021

This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...

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Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - 2023

filled jobs. Under counterfactual policies that resemble traditional employment regulation, buyers post fewer online jobs and … results suggest that neither online or offline knowledge workers will benefit from applying traditional employment regulation …

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The Impact of Health and Education on Labor Force Participation in Aging Societies – Projections for the United States and Germany from a Dynamic Microsimulation

Böheim, René; Horvath, Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2023

Using a highly stylized dynamic microsimulation model, we project the labor force of the United States up to the year 2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections are consistent with the U S Census Bureau’s and...

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The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2012

In this paper we ask how the diffusion of oral contraception to young unmarried women affected the number and maternal characteristics of children born to these women. Using census data, we find that early pill access led to an increase in the share of children whose mothers were married,...

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Spatial Growth and Industry Age

Desmet, Klaus - 2012

U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …

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General Education vs. Vocational Training : Evidence from an Economy in Transition

Malamud, Ofer - 2010

This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...

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