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This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. In several … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants …
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This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in the manufacturing industry in Chile in the last 15 years. Our overall conclusions are that process innovation is generally not found to be a relevant...
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This paper examines the effect of changes in the real exchange rate on skill upgrading in the case of Chile. Using plant-level data from the manufacturing sector we find that a real depreciation increases the share of skilled workers in the total wage bill in exporters but not in non-exporters....
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The long-run economic performance of Latin America has been unsatisfactory especially in comparison with other emerging economies, which have been able to 'catch up' with developed countries. The historically low innovation and dynamic entrepreneurship rates have been identified as two of the...
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Recent theoretical models have shown that when demand is slack, firms tend to introduce new management practices and/or reorganize their production methods; however, few micro econometric studies deal directly with the relationship between organizational change and economic crises. In this...
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In this paper, we study Total Factor Productivity (TFP) catching-up using 20 years of plant-level data for Chilean … manufacturing. This paper addresses two key issues: first, we analyse whether there is evidence that low-productivity plants … plants in accelerating the catching-up process by non-frontier domestic plants. Our results show evidence of productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818584
In this paper, we study Total Factor Productivity (TFP) catching-up using 20 years of plant-level data for Chilean … manufacturing. This paper addresses two key issues: first, we analyse whether there is evidence that low-productivity plants … plants in accelerating the catching-up process by non-frontier domestic plants. Our results show evidence of productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563474
process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared with the …
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in export mix and by firm size. In general, export mix changes are associated with improvements on productivity, although … export mix are more important for firm growth in large firms, but not in terms of productivity. In contrast, SMEs can have a … higher potential for productivity improvement through export product churning but this does not translate necessarily in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240349
This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. In several … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741886