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narrative identification approach. A corporate income tax cut leads to a sustained increase in GDP and productivity, with peak … employment are much less affected. In contrast, personal income tax cuts trigger a short-lived boost to GDP, productivity and … utilization and show that these features generate a pro-cyclical response of productivity which is key to account for our …
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characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …
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equilibrium model in which there is a continuum of firms subject to idiosyncratic productivity shocks. We find that a dividend tax … cut raises aggregate productivity by reducing the frictions in the reallocation of capital across firms. Our baseline …
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We develop a framework in which the host country productivity has a positive effect on the intensive margin (the size …-country productivity has a negative effect on the extensive margin. An increase in the host-country corporate tax rate reduces the actual …
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity … (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are remarkably …
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We estimate long-run elasticities of substitution between intermediate inputs for Indian manufacturing plants. India's trade liberalization in the early 1990s provides an ideal natural policy experiment, with permanent and heterogeneous tariff reductions inducing changes in relative prices which...
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-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …
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Aggregate data show a large and decades-long decline in construction sector productivity. This decline in such a large … sector has had a material effect on secular productivity growth for the economy as a whole. Prior work has focused on the … role of potential measurement problems in construction, particularly output deflators in the measurement of productivity …
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An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
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-level productivity evolution and the equilibrium market configuration. A counterfactual experiment reveals that a 15% R&D subsidy …
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