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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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's success well, poor productivity performance in the services sector has hampered overall productivity growth. The Republic of … People's Republic of China needs to upgrade its institutional quality and improve productivity, particularly in its services …
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This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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The paper presents a detailed industry-level productivity analysis (52 industries) for the effects of industry … industry structure and productivity growth of an industry. The analysis reveals positive effects of vertically disintegrated … analysis is the recently collected productivity database for Germany. The Ifo Productivity Database, which is unique due to its …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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gains in labor productivity in recent decades in many developing countries. This paper offers a new perspective into the …. We argue that subnational differences in the intersectoral productivity gap between the nonfarm informal and formal … sectors constrain the productivity gain from structural transformation. In Ghana, intersectoral productivity gaps among the …
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the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors …
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