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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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. The catch-up factor is defined as the ratio of actual to desired level of employment. Productivity growth is then defined …
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This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …
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innovativeness to innovation input, innovation output and productivity. The empirical part is based on Korean firm level innovation … productivity we correct for selectivity and simultaneity biases. The results show that there is a two-way causal relationship … between knowledge capital and labor productivity. Firm-specific effects positively contribute to innovation output but they …
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Iceland, one of the smallest European economies, was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper uses a firm-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system. We examine the linkage between the crisis...
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relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency … and factor productivity growth at the firm level. Fourth, the causal relationships between the five variables of interest …
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of actual to desired level of employment. Productivity growth is defined in terms of a shift in the labor requirement …
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We examine sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of ways. The sensitivity analysis is based on the comparison of a basic econometric model estimated...
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In general there is agreement about the positive impacts of R&D on performance of firms measured as productivity …
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