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I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment …, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives … outcomes in states before and after they adopt incentives, relative to similar states that did not adopt incentives over the …
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Medical care is characterized by enormous inefficiency. Costs are higher and outcomes worse than almost all analyses of the industry suggest should occur. In other industries characterized by inefficiency, efficient firms expand to take over the market, or new firms enter to eliminate...
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productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …
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's agricultural productivity. We present a method for assessing the role of price increases and strengthened individual incentives due …
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This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different provision of information about individual's skill at the task prior to the tournament. We find that that total tournament output depends on inequality according to an inverse U...
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's agricultural productivity. We present a method for assessing the role of price increases and strengthened individual incentives due …
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increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … revolution and point to the importance of taking into account farmer heterogeneity in estimating productivity and returns to …
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neoclassical growth model. Investment rates and total factor productivity start out low and rise over time. These model dynamics …
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This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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directly to cultivators or non-landlords. Although Banerjee and Iyer (2005) find that agricultural productivity of non … differences in incentives for development …
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