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fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU … hour worked in these countries appear to be mainly due to positive developments (rising productivity) within single … industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards higher productivity activities. Trade is found to be an …
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, employment, and productivity, many direct and indirect effects are at play. To ensure a transparent and systematic flow of the …
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The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 1970s. Evidence suggests that European economies have lagged behind the United States in the adoption and usage of new...
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Using firm-level data for Jordan, we estimate the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from persistent learning externalities (i.e., they endure even after foreign investment leaves as knowledge has been transferred to local firms) or from...
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productivity. We embed the recently released data on patents and publications related to AI into an augmented panel model of … productivity growth, estimated for OECD countries, and compared to a non-OECD sample. Our instrumental variables' estimates …, accounting for AI endogeneity, provide evidence in favour of the modern (AI) productivity paradox. We show that the development …
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Specialisation strategies on the labour productivity of regional economies. We design an analytical framework that takes into account … Portal. The results show that Smart Specialisation strategies increase labour productivity as long as the priorities are set …
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Do workers vary in their ability to work with others? I compare a given worker's productivity in solitary production to …
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