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This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …
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The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in the United States and propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential causes of this decline. We first highlight 10 pronounced stylized facts related to declining business dynamism...
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In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
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Does limited access to formal savings services impede business growth in poor countries? To shed light on this question, we randomized access to non-interest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya: market vendors (who are mostly women) and men working...
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productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i … variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly by the arrival rate of general innovations. Ceteris paribus, the … increase in firm-level volatility, and a decline in aggregate volatility. The effect on productivity growth is ambiguous. On …
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model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …
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reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal … marginal responsiveness of employment growth to business-level productivity has weakened. The responsiveness in the post-2000 … in the 1990s. Counterfactuals show that weakening productivity responsiveness since 2000 accounts for a significant drag …
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. These features motivate us to build a model in which increased volatility of firm level productivity shocks generates a …
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US, individual firms' stock returns correlate positively with their own productivity growth, yet the market return … correlates negatively with aggregate productivity growth, yet. This seeming fallacy of composition reflects Schumpeterian … creative destruction: a few technology winners' stocks rise with their rising productivity while many technology losers' stocks …
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