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productivity rise the wage hikes should be linked. In this paper we examine the economy-wide productivity rise vs the industry …-level rise in productivity as a basis for a wage norm. We evaluate the consequences of these alternatives from the point of view … which takes the aggregate productivity rise as its norm, has given room for the profitable industries to grow, but, on the …
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The paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) calculated on the average wage relative to a pre-set norm may promote employment. We assume a monopoly union setting wages at the firm level to maximize that part of the wage bill exceeding the reservation wage. The fiscal device affects union...
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Effects of R&D investment on frim/industry productivity have been investigated widely thanks to pioneering …
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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …
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German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …
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We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...
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mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …
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