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We compare the industrial dynamics in the core, semi-periphery and periphery in The Netherlands in terms of firm entry-exit, size, growth and sectoral location patterns. The contribution of our work is to provide the first comprehensive study on spatial differentiation in industrial dynamics for...
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important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
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the drop in private economy productivity growth between 1990-2000 and 2010-2016, though it accounted for less than 20% of … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …
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Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of … advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper is the first to provide evidence that investment in … Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak …
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declining share of manufacturing employment in the United States, and second that recent productivity growth in manufacturing … has actually been quite rapid but is not accurately measured. The paper shows that for many decades, faster productivity … manufacturing in the United States and other industrial economies. It also shows that since 2010, however, the relationship has been …
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information technology is indeed the story in the U.S. productivity revival, it is only part of it in the Canadian context. The U …Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that the literature … input, and productivity performance. Second, we examine the extent to which information technology producing and information …
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technology adoption that incorporates such a network and estimate it using a complete dataset of Python packages. Estimation …
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sketched a ∪. A model of unions is developed to analyze these facts. There is a distribution of productivity across firms in …, which affects the productivity of skilled labor relative to unskilled labor, can potentially explain the observed paths for …
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We examine the relationship between lax monetary policy, access to high-yield bond markets and productivity in the US … around FOMC announcements, we isolate the increased access to high-yield bond markets relative to investment-grade bond … higher risk profile. Since the relationship between credit ratings and firm-level productivity is U-shaped, the aggregate …
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/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …
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