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This paper examines variation in a productivity growth within a given location and between different locations …
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between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We …
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Iceland is one of the smallest European economies and the country was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper considers the economy in the period preceding the collapse. Applying a Data Envelopment Analysis on 204 randomly selected firms, the results suggest that a substantial...
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
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This paper assesses the contribution to productivity of firms’ internal innovation efforts and spatially …
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firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth? Using a panel of about 2,000 ex-employee starts ups, their parent …
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A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It … endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity improvements. This process has been conceived as occurring in two … the individual or firm owning the idea. Typically these steps are combined into a single model of the “invention in/productivity …
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entry of new firms influences productivity amongst incumbent firms, and the extent to which altered productivity can be … the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect …
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This paper reassesses the relationship between density and productivity by using detailed geo-coded data on wages and … productivity across squares. The estimated elasticity is in the 9-10 percent interval, and is insensitive to whether we employ a … to (or a location in) a larger agglomeration. Moreover, the estimated relationship between productivity and density is …
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correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness … distinctly higher level of productivity across all types of location. In addition, the productivity level of firms with …
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