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markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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The European banking industry is undergoing significant structural changes and cost-cutting programs, also as a result of the financial crisis. Yet, the institutional features that affect banks’ ability to adjust costs and in particular personnel expenses, which comprise a significant part of...
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-reorganization develops in high-wage sectors and is not dependent from the office technologies. It improves productivity dramatically. Labor …
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markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649663
Given the increasing significance of knowledge spillovers in innovation, this study investigates and compares knowledge spillovers from arm’s length firms in the industries (market) with those from other sister firms in the same business group (network). By dividing the knowledge pool into...
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This paper examines input and productivity dynamics of manufacturing firms in the period leading to and following … export market entry. We examine 3 possible explanations for the observed productivity gap between exporting and non …
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This paper studies the process of plant exit and productivity growth in Japan during the ‘lost decade’. A productivity … decomposition shows the low rate of productivity growth at the aggregate level to be due to slow within plant productivity growth … other country contexts except we find no effect from import competition. Our results suggest that the low productivity …
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