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What makes a productive Russian firm? : a comparative analysis using firm-level data

Wildnerova, Lenka; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2019

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against...

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Occupational entry regulations and their effects on productivity in services : firm-level evidence

Bambalaite, Indre; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Rueden, … - 2020

This paper assesses the possible dynamic effects of occupational entry regulations (OER) on productivity. It combines firm-level productivity data with a new cross-country policy indicator measuring the stringency of OER by the presence of administrative burdens, qualifications requirements, and...

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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity.

Cette, G.; Lopez, J.; Mairesse, J. - Banque de France - 2014

This study is to our knowledge the first attempt to infer the consequences on productivity entailed by anticompetitive regulations in product and labor markets through their impacts on production prices and wages. Results are encouraging showing that changes in production prices and wages at...

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Institutions and Diversification: Related versus Unrelated Diversification in a Varieties of Capitalism framework

Boschma, Ron; Capone, Gianluca - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014

The Varieties of Capitalism literature has drawn little attention to industrial renewal and diversification, while the related diversification literature has neglected the institutional dimension of industrial change. Bringing together both literatures, the paper proposes that institutions have...

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Portuguese economic growth revisited: a technology-gap explanation

Mendes, José Afonso; Silva, Sandra T.; Silva, Ester G. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

After a period of convergence where many perceived the country as a success case, Portugal’s economic performance proved to be disappointing in the last decade. In this study we focus on the relationship between technology and economic catching-up in order to answer to two major questions: (i)...

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Do Product Market Regulations In Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence For OECD Countries

Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 5, pp. 1750-1768

We identify the impact of intermediate goods markets imperfections on productivity downstream. Our empirical specification is based on a model of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth in which the effects of upstream competition can vary with distance to frontier. This model is estimated on a...

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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity

MAIRESSE, Jacques; Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression equation on an industry*country panel, with controls for...

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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition

Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - WWWforEurope - 2013

new European growth and development strategy is necessary and feasible, enabling a socio-ecological transition to high … challenges necessitating deliberations on a new growth path, to define socio-ecological transition, key actors and main obstacles …, and to find out how the process of a socio-ecological transition can be initiated, monitored, and accelerated on an …

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Les effets macroéconomiques sur la productivité et les prix de vastes réformes structurelles sur les marchés des biens et du travail.

CETTE, G.; LOPEZ, J.; MAIRESSE, J. - In: Bulletin de la Banque de France (2015) 199, pp. 1-19

La présente analyse vise à caractériser les effets « directs » et « indirects » des régulations sur le marché des biens ainsi que les effets des régulations sur le marché du travail, sur la productivité et sur les prix. L’analyse est empirique et réalisée via des estimations sur...

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Institutions and Diversification: Related versus Unrelated Diversification in a Varieties of Capitalism framework

Boschma, Ron; Capone, Gianluca - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2015

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