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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … prolonged productivity lags in the region, while, if well designed and implemented, could have large economic payoffs. This …
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Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges
Cubeddu, Luis M.; Culiuc, Alexander; Fayad, Ghada; Gao, Yuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the...
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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity? : works councils can have a positive impact on firm productivity, but only when specific conditions are in place
Hübler, Olaf - 2015
on a firm's productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …
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Advanced technology, innovation, wages and productivity in the Canadian manufacturing sector
Cozzarin, Brian P. - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 4/6, pp. 243-249
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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation
Dostie, Benoît - 2015
-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and increased innovation, both of which benefit the firm. Training can also be …
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Exports and firm survival : do trade regime and productivity matter?
Dai, Meihong; Harris, Richard; Lu, Yuduo; Liu, Haiyang - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 4/6, pp. 457-460
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Productivity measurement in tourism : the need for better tools
Joppe, Marion; Li, Xiaofeng - In: Journal of travel research : a quarterly publication of … 55 (2016) 2, pp. 139-149
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Do minimum wages stimulate productivity and growth? : minimum wage increases fail to stimulate growth and can have a negative impact on vulnerable workers during recessions
Sabia, Joseph J. - 2015
Proponents of minimum wage increases have argued that such hikes can serve as an engine of economic growth and assist low-skilled individuals during downturns in the business cycle. However, a review of the literature provides little empirical support for these claims. Minimum wage increases...
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Labour reallocation and productivity dynamics : financial causes, real consequences
Borio, Claudio E. V.; Kharroubi, Enisse; Upper, Christian; … - 2015
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Impact of patenting on firms' performance : an empirical investigation based on manufacturing firms in India
Ambrammal, Sunil Kumar; Sharma, Ruchi - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 25 (2016) 1/2, pp. 14-32
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