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not with higher productivity or profitability. The evidence suggests that intangible investment is associated with growth … and 'soft' performance objectives, but not with productivity or profitability …
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We use a newly assembled sample of 1,503 regions from 82 countries to compare the speed of per capita income convergence within and across countries. Regional growth is shaped by similar factors as national growth, such as geography and human capital. Regional convergence is about 2.5% per year,...
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economic predicament. With an aggregate labour productivity of 55% relative to the rest of the country, both are true transfer …
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localized spillover effects of the new parks on local incumbent firm productivity, the growth of retail activity close to the …
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In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …
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We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and sectoral productivity changes. We find that the elasticities vary …
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productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of …
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We provide sufficient statistics for nominal and real wage exposure to productivity shocks in a constant elasticity … wages in each location with respect to productivity shocks in all locations. They are readily computed using commonly … provide theory-consistent measures of locations' exposure to productivity shocks for use in further economic and statistical …
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Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling …
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Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many developing countries, we construct a micro founded dynamic framework to explore how important education-based migration is, as opposed to work-based migration, for economic...
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