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This paper studies the sub-sectoral contributions to aggregate manufacturing labor share decline in the US between 1979 … and 2019. Using the Log Mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition, the decline in the manufacturing sector's labor share is … manufacturing. Moreover, low labor share sub-sectors (especially Chemical products, Food and Beverage and Tobacco products, and …
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India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the last two decades. However, an acceleration of … growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded India. What might be holding the sector back …-reform performance of the manufacturing sector is heterogeneous across industries. In particular, industries dependent on infrastructure …
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quantifies this question by employing observable and reliable data on green manufacturing production for an extensive set of EU … countries and 4-digit manufacturing industries for over a decade. First, at a descriptive level, this paper documents that …
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Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its … Domar weights to computed total factor productivity (TFP) growth for selected 10, 2-digit industries for the period 1980 …
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In this paper we study the capital adjustment process in Swedish manufacturing firms and relate the empirical findings …
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Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency gains and the likely effect on market power creation. However, the realities may be different from the expected synergy creation since merger regulations are ex ante in nature. The...
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-country income and total factor productivity (TFP) differences. The main focus is on the interaction between entry cost and financial … differences in income per capita and a factor five of the differences in TFP, and a large part of the differences are accounted …
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Using a narrative identification of US tax changes over the post-WWII period, we show that corporate income tax cuts foster R&D spending and innovation, leading to a persistent increase in aggregate productivity and output. In contrast, changes in the average personal income tax rate have mostly...
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economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …
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