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This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …
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Short-term increasing returns to production factors are usually found in empirical studies. We argue they can be due to omitted variables, particularly the intensity of factor utilisation. Thanks to original French firm-level data (1992-2008), we show how increasing returns to scale disappear...
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International immigration affects the degree of cultural diversity present in a labour force. This paper focuses on the consequences of immigration with respect to the level of cultural diversity by estimating employment functions for individual establishments. The theory behind the empirical...
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Our paper identifies and estimates the effects of R&D spillovers on total factor productivity with consideration of …
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analysis of industrial classifications criteria; output, employment, productivity and wages evolution; and a brief discussion … of economic growth and wages behavior par rapport to productivity. …
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productivity analysis; 2) the structure of the sector, in terms of size and land tenure, throughout the country and in the …
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Domestic market growth and urbanization encouraged the agricultural and industrial dairy production. This labour-intensive product played a strategic role in the batllist agenda. This paper studies the dairy farm production and dynamics as well as the causes of its stagnation. The public...
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international comparison the key characteristics and recent developments of labour costs, taxation and productivity in Austria and …
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