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productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …
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Within-industry differences in measured plant-level productivity are large. A large literature has been devoted to … classification and regression trees. We use our imputations and the Bureau's imputations to estimate within-industry productivity … dispersions. The results suggest that there is more within-industry productivity dispersion than previous research has indicated …
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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …
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to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …
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) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …
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Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The …
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We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an 80% discount on the levy after...
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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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This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed...
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the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …
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