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evolution over time of four fundamental aspects of their productivity: i) training duration; ii) time to a first publication …; iii) productivity over the training period; and iv) collaboration with other scientists. We identified four main trends …
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productivity. Within a given teamwork setting, it is not obvious how group member diversity affects the performance of the …
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We examine the effect of air quality regulation on the productivity of some of the most heavily regulated manufacturing … stringency. We also construct measures of total factor productivity using plant level data which allow us to observe physical … regulations, productivity in the Los Angeles Air Basin refineries rose sharply during the 1987 - 1992 period, a period of …
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Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government officials. Regulations generate direct revenues (fees) plus indirect revenues in the form of bribes. The expected value of the latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by...
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This paper presents capital utilization corrected measures of technology shocks for aggregate and disaggregated (two digit Standard Industrial Classification code) industries. We correct for variations in capital utilization by employing industrial electrical use as a measure of capital...
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Much of the economic literature on franchising has been concerned with incentive issues and how these are managed in franchised contracts. Two main types of incentive mechanisms have been identified: residual claims and self enforcement. In this paper we describe these incentive mechanisms, and...
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Evolution of technology causes human capital to become obsolete. We study this phenomenon in an overlapping generations setting, assuming it is hard to predict how technology will evolve, and that older workers find updating uneconomic. Among our results is the proposition that (under certain...
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This paper takes a new approach to testing the impact of state environmental regulatory stringency on firms' location decisions, focusing on firms' allocation of production across states. We use Census data for the paper industry to measure the share of each firm's production in each state...
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Productivity improvements within establishments (e.g., factories, mines, or retail stores) are an important source of … aggregate productivity growth. Past research has documented that learning by doing-productivity improvements that occur in …
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