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Business dynamism and productivity growth in Belgium
Dumont, Michel - 2021
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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022
The expansion of enterprise level datasets has led to the emergence of a large body of literature on patterns of employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally supported and encouraged by different policy initiatives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040685
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From outsourcing to productivity, passing through training : microeconometric evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto - 2014
productivity using an original dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, and applying a two-stage probit least squares estimator. We … find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect … impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing …
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Digging into the technological dimension of environmental productivity
Belloc, Filippo; Valentini, Edilio - 2022
We propose a mixture model approach to identify locally optimal technologies and to dissect environmental productivity …
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Automation, Performance and International Competition: Firm-level Comparisons of Process Innovation
Kromann, Lene; Sørensen, Anders - 2015
productivity growth than other firms. Moreover, automation improves the efficiency of all stages of the production process by …
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Market power in Latin America in worldwide perspective : an empirical exploration
Heresi, Rodrigo - 2024
While there is widespread evidence of increasing markups in the United States and other developed economies in the last several decades, little is known about that evolution in developing economies, particularly Latin American countries. Using a harmonized dataset on listed firms from 70...
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Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Griffith, Rachel; … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration. We first derive a number of predictions regarding the relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple model with nancial imperfections andincomplete contracts. Then, we investigate these...
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The Implications of Globalization for Firms’ Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor
Scheuer, Christian; Sørensen, Anders; Rosholm, Michael - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of globalization, in the sense of increasing international trade, on the demand for skills in Danish manufacturing companies. The study is based on a unique data set that enables us to develop rich measures of international outsourcing and import penetration....
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Imposition of MAT on SEZs : concerns and the way forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Bhardwaj, Bhavook - 2016
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a type of managed industrial cluster which focuses on exports and encourages the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology. These "special" zones are given a range of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, which are not available to firms located in the...
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Climbing up India's manufacturing export ladder : how competitive are intermediate goods?
Das, Deb Kusum; Gupta, Neha - 2019
The rising trade in intermediate goods accounts for almost two-thirds of world’s trade (MGI, 2019). India's export share for intermediate goods in its total exports has increased from 31.18% in 2011 to 32.52% in 2016. Moreover, India's overall share in world merchandise exports has itself...
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