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, thereby affecting farm-level productivity, but perhaps to different degrees and for different durations across production …
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-level total factor productivity using the Olley–Pakes approach suggests that processing firms are less productive than non …
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This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity by using both Chinese manufacturing … productivity (TFP) by adopting an augmented Olley-Pakes (1996) semi-parametric methodology to correct the simultaneity bias from … increases productivity for firms that produce complex goods (highly differentiated products). In contrast, we found that trade …
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In the classical literature of innovation-based endogenous growth, the main engine of long run economic growth is firm entry. Nevertheless, when projects are heterogeneous, and good ideas are scarce, a mass-composition trade off is introduced into this link: larger cohorts are characterized by a...
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The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …
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total-factor-productivity (TFP) elasticity of output per worker of 2.8. This implies that a factor of 3 difference in TFP is …
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This paper presents a simple formula that relates the tail index of the firm size distribution to the aggregate speed with which an economy converges to its balanced growth path. The fact that there are so many firms in the right tail implies that aggregate shocks that permanently destroy...
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Pakistan, till today no research institution has been established for the development of potential sugar cane yield production and increase in the recovery rate of the crushed cane. As a result, sugar recovery is hardly 9.5 percent as against 12-14 percent in other world sugar producing...
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We estimate the determinants of labor productivity growth in 8 new European Union (EU) member states that joined the … Union in 2004. Our focus is on the impact of globalization and EU integration efforts on labor productivity growth. Previous … labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 1995-2006 period, we find that globalization has mixed effects. FDI and …
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institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic …
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