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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …
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German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …
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hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity growth. It also reviews how workers affected by labour … labour market flows and these flows, in turn, have significant impacts on productivity growth. At the same time, the evidence …
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Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … industries and regions and output and productivity growth. We do obtain robust results with respect to the positive impact of the … - on the relationship between productivity growth and the shares of migrants and of high-skilled migrants in overall …
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productivity only when it is coupled with a high-wage policy. This holds for individual-based performance pay, group …
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Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
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There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
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