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-VP approach is used in order to calculate some Malmquist index numbers of productivity. This allows separating the Funds' effects …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of subcontracting on Italian manufacturing firms' growth in the second half of the 1990s. By making use of a 5000 firms database we specifically test: a) whether and how subcontracting may affect the growth dynamics of firms; b) whether growth...
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industrial structures with higher productivity. -- Total factor productivity ; structural estimation ; rural-urban divides ; UK …
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We compute aggregate productivity of manufacturing industries by urban, rural less sparse and rural sparse locations in the UK from firm-specific total factor productivities, which are estimated by a semi-parametric algorithm within 4-digit manufacturing industries using FAME data over the...
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This study explores the prevalence and nature of the regional divide for the Mexican manufacturing production across sub-national regions. We utilize a unique panel of municipality-level data from the manufacturing sector. An important contribution is the use of different panel methods to...
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We construct a framework for investigating the effects of knowledge on industry performance. Using Chinese provincial industry data from 2000 to 2012, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) change into the four components of embodied technical change, disembodied technical change, scale...
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density of economic activity and adapt the semi-parametric estimation approach proposed in Olley and Pakes (1996) to estimate …. Next, we decompose aggregate productivity into productivity index and industry composition index. The productivity index is … proximity to economic mass. Because industry composition index is positively correlated with productivity index it is evident …
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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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