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This paper analyses trends in working time inthe euro area, in comparison with the US, over the period 1970 to 2004 and examines the causes and consequences of the observed changes. Between 1970 and 2004, a downward trend in average annual hours worked per worker can be observed for the euro...
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competitiveness, specifically with a stronger emphasis on productivity performance, the paper also introduces a more elaborate … framework that takes into account the interactions between country-specific factors and firm-level productivity. It thus makes …
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countries productive resources were misallocated to less efficient and lower productivity sectors. In order to distinguish …
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missed. Looking at the relationship between FDI growth on one hand and labour productivity, capital productivity and …
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Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … industries and regions and output and productivity growth. We do obtain robust results with respect to the positive impact of the … - on the relationship between productivity growth and the shares of migrants and of high-skilled migrants in overall …
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of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after acquisition. Our …
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We assess Finland’s competitiveness in the light of various, mainly short-term indicators. It turns out that the weak export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A better export and employment performance requires...
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to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper …
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cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …
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We summarize and compare previous studies considering the impact of R&D subsidies on firm-level labor productivity … on its client firms’ labor productivity. These studies go astray from the outset, however, as they neither measure what …
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