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The Effect of Changing Technology Use on Plant Performance in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector
Baldwin, John R.; Sabourin, David - 2009
This paper investigates how changes in technology use of individual plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector are … of panel data on advanced technology use from Statistics Canada’s 1993 and 1998 advanced manufacturing surveys that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208743
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Trade reforms and productivity growth in manufacturing industries of Pakistan
Nazli, Ansa; Siddiqui, Rehana; Hanif, Imran - In: Review of economics and development studies 4 (2018) 2, pp. 199-207
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The role of factor substitution and technical progress in China's great expansion
Manu, Ana-Simona; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo - 2018
We offer a macroeconomic assessment of China’s Reform Period, highlighting several neglected channels underlining its great expansion. Estimating the supply side of the post-Reform economy reveals the relatively high (above unity) value of the elasticity of factor substitution and the...
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … of firms. Our exercise is innovative as Sweden has a unique regulatory structure where the manufacturing plants have to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906240
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Chapter 4. Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance
Cohen, Wesley M. - 2010
This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the determination of firms’ and industries’ innovative activity and performance, highlighting the questions addressed, the approaches adopted, impediments to progress in the field, and research opportunities. We review the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025172
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Market power and wage inequality
Deb, Shubhdeep; Eeckhout, Jan; Patel, Aseem; Warren, … - 2022
We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. We ask how goods and labor market power jointly affect the level of wages, the Skill Premium, and wage inequality. We then use detailed microdata from the US Census between 1997 and 2016 to estimate the parameters of labor supply,...
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Faster Payments : Market Structure and Policy Considerations
Rosenbaum, Aaron - 2017
The U.S. payments industry is in the process of developing ubiquitous, safe, faster electronic solutions for making a broad variety of business and personal payments. How this market for faster payments will evolve will be shaped by a range of economic forces, such as economies of scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943870
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Faster payments : market structure and policy considerations
Rosenbaum, Aaron; Baughman, Garth; Manuszak, Mark D.; … - 2017
The U.S. payments industry is in the process of developing ubiquitous, safe, faster electronic solutions for making a broad variety of business and personal payments. How this market for faster payments will evolve will be shaped by a range of economic forces, such as economies of scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803228
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Market Structure and Technology : Evidence from the Italian National Health Service
Zanardi, Alberto; Robone, Silvana - 2014
A key feature of Sutton's theory is that industries evolve to distinct market configurations in terms of concentration depending upon whether the markets have a large size, whether the corresponding products are essentially homogeneous, whether they are differentiated by research and development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068645
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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth
Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018
A new wave of innovation is beginning to disrupt industry on a global scale. It constitutes a tremendous opportunity for faster productivity growth, but also a potential disruption to a number of economic sectors and to job markets. Academic research and the public debate have focused mostly on...
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