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trading. Such measures can reduce emissions cost-effectively and create incentives for technological development. There is … been too low to create the incentives necessary to stimulate technological development. This paper empirically analyzes how … the Swedish carbon dioxide tax and the EU ETS have affected productivity development in the Swedish pulp and paper …
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upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …
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In recent years, literature has linked structural reforms with productivity growth. Considering Portugal’s recent …-2014, this paper assesses the impact of structural reforms on firms’ productivity. In line with existing literature, the analysis … productivity levels. The firms’ distance to the technological frontier mediates the impact of reforms, either by potentiating its …
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The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has … industries relative to abundant fishing potentials, labor productivity and technical changes in addition to available capital are …
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Is digitalisation a massive gamechanger which will deliver huge gains in productivity, or is it more of a sideshow with …-level observations to empirically investigate the impact of digitalisation on productivity growth via various previously unexplored … experience significant productivity gains from digitalisation. Digitalisation does not seem to have relatively stronger impacts …
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productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical …
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of production and correlations with technical changes are measured by Total Factor Productivity as an expression of … Technical Efficiency to assess Total Factor Productivity …
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If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the existence of a similar link at the level of the firm has been challenged by empirical work. This paper investigates the channels linking investment and firm performance in the French...
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process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared with the …
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This paper assesses empirically the hypotheses by Bental and Demougin (2010) that innovations in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) reduce the labor share in OECD countries by improving the monitoring technology. In a first step, I show that data trends for the labor share, wages in...
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