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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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country comparisons with other East Asian economies such as Korea, Japan and China reveal that India has an opportunity to …
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Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … important than R&D for innovation, but more important for productivity. These results support the proposition that ICT is an …
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presence (measured by turnover) increases the Total Factor Productivity of domestic firms by 0.42 percentage points. Thus, the …
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The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...
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We study the importance of intangible capital (R&D, software, patents) for the measurement of productivity using firm … of input choice and unobserved productivity shocks. We find a positive output elasticity for research and development (R … output production function reduces productivity dispersion (measured by the 90-10 decile range) on average by 3%, in some …
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the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …
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labour productivity. The service intensities in the sectoral production mix are lower in countries with higher manufacturing … shares. This holds for both catching up and developed economies. However, servitization is largely unrelated to productivity …
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This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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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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