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field, we find no evidence that low-productivity workers perform better when they are observed by high-productivity co …-workers. Instead, our results imply that peer effects in our experiment are heterogeneous, with some workers reciprocating a high-productivity …
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, improving the availability of working capital is the most promising way to increase agricultural productivity. …
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This paper investigates the impact of labour force composition on productivity in EU arable farming. We test for … labour or the shift of family labour to more productive tasks could raise productivity. This finding calls into question a …
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The objective of this article is to investigate the impact of research and development (R&D) spillovers on cartelization of industries characterized by differentiated products. For simplicity, we focus on the duopoly market in which firms compete according to the Stackelberg leadership model....
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comparing the UK's manufacturing labour productivity performance with those of three countries - France, Germany and Sweden … - that possess more stringent employment protection laws. The findings reveal that while productivity growth in the UK was … of a straightforward negative relationship between regulatory stringency and productivity growth. …
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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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, we suggest that the convergence based on the productivity, can be assisted by a reinforcement of supply-side measures …
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We introduce government production of both output-augmenting and utility-enhancing public services into an exogenous growth model with a detailed government sector, and calibrate the model to Bulgarian data for the period following the introduction of the currency board arrangement (1999-2016)....
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We separately observe variable input expenditure and expenditure on fixed inputs in novel firm-level data covering the Belgian manufacturing sector over the last decades. This permits a deeper investigation of two potential drivers of the globally observed widening gap between firms' revenue and...
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