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evidence for a reaction of wage growth to unemployment and productivity growth. The degree of real wage flexibility tends to be …
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I review a contemporary branch of the informal sector literature that focus on understanding the way firm behavior is affected by the presence of informality and how such distortions have an impact on aggregate variables. The authors in this group all make use of dynamic general equilibrium...
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productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms … from globalisation on firms' R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …
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will impact on efficiency as well as productivity, yet researchers usually assume a production process that is fully … relations on efficiency as well as productivity, in a sample of French equipment manufacturing firms. The results show that … tends to have a negative impact on both efficiency and productivity, but this is reversed for firms that adopt many HRM …
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The TFP approach (TFP method) is one of the methods of performance-based regulation whose aim is to increase the efficiency of regulated companies. This article presents an overview of current international experience with the application of TFP benchmarking in the price regulation of energy...
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This paper examines the relationship between capital tax competition amongst countries and the productivity spillover … productivity shocks has on a country’s tax setting behavior. The paper empirically tests this using a spatial dynamic panel data … evidence that foreign productivity level changes are having a negative impact on domestic tax rates. In addition, this paper …
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policies) and labour and total factor productivity growth in 20 EU Member States over the 1991–2008 period. The empirical …. As regards the relation between flexicurity variables and productivity growth, panel regression estimates showed that … association with labour and total factor productivity growth. On the other hand, rigid employment protection and high expenditures …
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profitability and productivity that can outweigh the costs of the policy. This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the link … between environmental policy stringency and productivity growth, and the various channels through which such effects can take …
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panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …
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The austerity programme of the coalition government knocked at least one percent per year off growth in the first two years of this Parliament. In retrospect, this looks like a mistake and the slower pace of austerity in 2012 to 2013 and thereafter was welcome (as was the setting up of the...
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