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This paper examines productivity growth in Romania using balance sheet data for a census of Romanian firms in 2011 …-17. Three measures of productivity are estimated: labor productivity, revenue total factor productivity, and revenue total … factor productivity adjusted for markups. Drawing from these measures, the paper follows a two-step approach to answer two …
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establishment productivity and markups. The elimination of local barriers that were inconsistent with national legislation was the …. The paper finds that the elimination of subnational barriers to entry boosted the (revenue) productivity of establishments … raise the establishments' markups, which, if anything, declined, suggesting that physical productivity improved. The paper …
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revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …
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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...
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Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between...
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This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between the incidence of the digital economy and long-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation between national unemployment rates and the incidence of...
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Advances in digital technology are expanding the boundaries of firms. Digital platform firms, which leverage a "platform" to create value through facilitating exchanges between two or more interdependent groups, are the new disrupters in the market. They exhibit distinct features such as scale...
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In many aid projects, monitoring and evaluation is a static exercise driven by donor reporting requirements. After project closure, there are seldom sustainable benefits of the monitoring and evaluation system. This paper examines how monitoring and evaluation can be transformed into a dynamic...
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