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that despite many outward similarities, two of the most successful Southeast Asian economies, Taiwan and South Korea … Taiwan and identify a number of systematic differences in industry structure between the two countries. Our empirical … producers. These patterns are consistent with strong competitive pressures in Taiwan that lead to market selection based on …
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The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less …
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In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …
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obtained using data for Taiwan and perform counterfactuals to study the effect of alternative policies. R&D misallocation has a …
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Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and...
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We live in an age of paradox. Systems using artificial intelligence match or surpass human level performance in more and more domains, leveraging rapid advances in other technologies and driving soaring stock prices. Yet measured productivity growth has declined by half over the past decade, and...
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We explore the possibility that a global productivity slowdown is responsible for the widespread decline in the labor share of national income. In a neoclassical growth model with endogenous human capital accumulation a la Ben Porath (1967) and capital-skill complementarity a la Grossman et al....
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One of the most important developments in the growth literature of the last decade is the enhanced appreciation of the role that the misallocation of resources plays in helping us understand income differences across countries. Misallocation at the micro level typically reduces total factor...
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Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and...
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This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple's complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share of...
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