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This paper empirically examines the relationship between innovation, R&D (Research and Development), and productivity … structural model (CDM model) that describes the link between innovation output, R&D and productivity for the Thai case. Various … size, foreign ownership, exporting and product innovation are important drivers of productivity enhancement in Thai …
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labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … choose and afford to have a complex innovation strategy are better off in terms of their future productivity in compare with …. Moreover, not all types of complex innovation strategies affect the future productivity significantly; rather, there are only …
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examine how physical proximity influences a firm's future productivity and its survival possibility. Our results indicate that … a firm located in a region with a higher median total factor productivity (TFP) gains higher productivity from other … knowledge and to produce more new ideas. Our results also indicate these productivity-enhancing characteristics do not seem to …
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corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects of this “bribe tax” on productivity are compared to the consequences of red … tax appears to have a negative impact on firm-level productivity, while the effect of the time tax is insignificant. We …
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UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and …
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This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
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. Estimates based on the conditional logit model show a significantly positive relationship between initial labour productivity … probability to export and initial labour productivity is low once firm effects are controlled for. Surprisingly, the impact of … labour productivity on exporting does not differ between micro enterprises and the remaining SMEs (10-249 employees …
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For the last few years, the number of smartphone users has been on a remarkable rise. The number of users increased from 62.6 million in 2010 to 115.8 million in 2012, and expected to increase to 192.4 million by 2016. This increased usage of smartphones by employees poses a dilemma for...
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-extending health care expenditures should increase with rising productivity and retirement age, while the effects of improvement in …
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