ownership and competition appear to be about equally important for the consequences of public sector outsourcing. …

- specifically, exit for cause - regulates median and top-end profitability. Thus, the process by which competition drives out …

This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …

This essay assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are …

paper also investigates the impact of land fragmentation on productivity and labor input per acre, and finds a positive …

or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …

duplication of research. An increase in the intensity of competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed …

Contrary to most of the literature, which focuses only on the level of investment in innovation, this paper examines … competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …

-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …