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world struggles to scale up vaccination in the face of new waves and variants, continued emphasis on testing could help …
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of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and lead to low productivity in the LDCs. Even when all countries … productivity and output per worker. We provide evidence in favour of the cross-industry productivity patterns predicted by our …
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We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction of new goods whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...
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We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction of new goods whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010576552
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621792
productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …
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services. The link between these reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms is examined using panel data for about 4 … significant positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and locally … index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms and 13.2 percent for …
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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry of new firms and productivity improvements by continuing firms. The …
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The paper has three purposes. First, it explains how the impact of liberalization of service sectors on output growth differs from that of liberalization of trade in goods. Second, it suggests a policy-based rather than outcome-based measure of the openness of a country’s services regime. Such...
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