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Knowledge and development : a cross-section approach
Chen, Derek Hung Chiat; Dahlman, Carl J. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002184874
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From farms to factories and firms : structural transformation and labor productivity growth in Malaysia
Rahman, Amanina Abdur; Schmillen, Achim - 2020
productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …, the main policy challenge for Malaysia going forward will be to achieve sustainable labor productivity growth within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390628
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The effects of digital-technology adoption on productivity and factor demand : firm-level evidence from developing countries
Cusolito, Ana Paula; Lederman, Daniel; Peña, Jorge - 2020
This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002–19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297843
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Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries?
Deichmann, Uwe; Goyal, Aparajita; Mishra, Deepak - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552139
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Creative natives in the digital age : how digital technology has revolutionized creative work
Kabanda, Patrick - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553922
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Stages of development of payment systems : leapfrogging across countries and MENA's place in the world
Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228183
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ICT adoption and wage inequality : evidence from Mexican firms
Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - 2018
This paper uses a panel of firms from the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption of information and communication technologies. The paper studies the effects of the adoption of information and communication technologies over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794807
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Innovation patterns and their effects on firm-level productivity in South Asia
Cirera, Xavier; Cusolito, Ana P. - 2019
as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051862
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Do management interventions last? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas; Mahajan, Aprajit; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2018
Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom and others 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809319
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Structural reforms to set the growth ambition
Rovo, Natasha - 2020
-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230763