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different internationalization states according to their productivity levels. While these papers ignore the fact, that the … with a broader investment strategy, reflecting a great importance of market-driven motives, show higher productivity levels …
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Many sectors of the UK economy experienced rapid productivity growth over the 1980's. This coincided with an increase … use more intermediate goods. They also pay their workers higher wages. Differences in levels of total factor productivity …
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This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …
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-level productivity. Controlling for an extensive set of fixed effects as well as potential political-economy drivers of regulation, we … experienced a substantial loss in productivity that was concentrated in the sectors most dependent on external finance and …
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services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …
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This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … a robust determinant of productivity in the long term. Control variables such as spending on R&D and human capital also … range of productivity measures as well as to changes in the sectoral coverage and the set of controls. …
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productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less …, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic … firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution. …
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It is well established in the literature that foreign affiliates are subject to a series of governance and assimilation costs that deteriorate their performance. This is particularly relevant for firms which have been recently acquired by foreign investors. We employ the variation in civic...
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Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …
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. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …
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