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and 2018, we estimate the total factor productivity with the most common methods for the Cobb-Douglas and the translog …
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One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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Productivity, the efficiency by which firms convert inputs into output is central concept in growth related discussions …. This research is focused on analyzing productivity on a sample of Macedonian firms. The goal is twofold - first, to … construct productivity indicators by using firm-level data, with special focus to construction of total factor productivity (TFP …
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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between R&D expenditures and productivity growth. The analysis considers the different contributions of various forms of R … Productivity (TFP). Thus, this paper answers the call for more research on the links between a firm's external R&D and its … productivity. In the cross-section econometric analysis, we estimate a Treatment Effects model based on the assumption that the …
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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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Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms engaged in exporting activity tend to have superior characteristics compared to their non-exporting peers. The paper is focused on identifying reasons behind this superiority of...
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We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We … disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity …
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Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its … measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two … reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should reflect the productivity of the lower levels, which comprise the aggregate …
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The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on …
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