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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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recently. In particular, takeovers by foreign firms raise suspicions of technology theft and job cuts at the newly acquired … of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …
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than developing new technology. This paper aims to revise this interpretation. First, long-term series of labor … productivity and fatality rates data are presented. Second, a link between improvements in Europe both in productivity and safety … of safety, technological innovations is proposed. A comparison of productivity and safety for European countries is …
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To understand the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on European labor demand, we use an empirical decomposition of observed changes in the total wage bill in the economy developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2019). The decomposition is derived from a task-based model...
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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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also find that technology and innovation have a positive impact on the productivity of firms in Cambodia. …The paper examines the innovation and competitiveness of firms, especially with regard to the channels of technology … and the impact that these factors have on firms' productivity in Cambodia. We use the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES …
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high level with 41.09%; and the productivity dimension exhibited a medium level with 43.64%. In the technology dimension …
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The authors argue that the pattern of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth across industries may presage a second wave … of productivity advance supported by the digital economy. …
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productivity shocks. However, the dispersion of firms' productivity shocks has decreased too. To enhance our understanding of these … production technology to firms' responsiveness and job reallocation. …
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productivity shocks. However, the dispersion of firms' productivity shocks has decreased too. To enhance our understanding of these … production technology to firms' responsiveness and job reallocation. …
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