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The People's Republic of China's import competition and skill demand in Japanese manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition …, this has not resulted in substituting skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing. Rather, it has had the profound positive …
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Productivity: Urban-rural differences affect productivity more than east-west differences
Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 43, pp. 387-393
Following reunification, productivity in eastern Germany grew rapidly. A strong industrial sector is key to a thriving German economy. However, the narrowing of the industrial productivity gap between eastern and western Germany has come to a standstill since the financial and economic crisis...
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Produktivität: Unterschiede zwischen Stadt und Land wichtiger als zwischen Ost und West
Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 43, pp. 793-799
In Ostdeutschland ist die Produktivität nach der Vereinigung rasant gestiegen. In dem für die Leistungsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft zentralen Bereich der Industrie jedoch ist der Annäherungsprozess zu Westdeutschland seit der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise zum Erliegen gekommen. Die Lücke im...
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The economic microgeography of diversity and specialization
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Wernberg, Joakim - 2017
that these two types of externalities co-exist, but differ in their spatial distribution and attenuation within cities …-city industry cluster in a diversified, large city appears to let firms enjoy the benefits of local industry-specific externalities …
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Re-evaluating RCTs with nightlights - An example from biometric smartcards in India
Stein, Merlin - 2021
Satellite data and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a powerful combination for analyzing causal effects beyond traditional survey-based indicators. The usage of remotely collected data for evaluating RCTs is cost-effective, objective and possible for anyone with treatment assignment data....
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The optimal size of German cities: An efficiency analysis perspective
Hitzschke, Stephan - 2011
externalities. The investigation is performed in a two-stage process. First, the efficiency in terms of scale efficiency is measured …
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
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International sectoral spillovers: An empircal analysis for German and US Industries
Smolny, Werner - 1995
In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to control for sector-specific differences in human...
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Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth based on Observable Technology Shifters
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2017
This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable...
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Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653176