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models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …
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We study how the timing of technology adoption through capital accumulation shapes firm-level productivity dynamics and … and exploiting the lumpiness of capital accumulation, we document that large investment episodes lead to productivity …
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workers contribute positively. We propose a theoretical model, highlighting the relationship between demographics, innovation …
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organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … an efficient work organization. In this article it is analyzed the evolution of the productivity and employment levels in … labor productivity is also the pointer of the quality of life in a economy, therefore it represents the value produced by …
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productivity and innovation. Despite these findings, most Greek companies do not seem convinced of the usefulness of OJT. They …
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model, we use novel and detailed productivity and survey data from nine large firms in three industries: call … profits per worker and the difference is driven by referrals from high productivity workers. …
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To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and noninteractive …
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innovation activities on rm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish rms, we nd that di erent types of … productivity levels than forms that adopt organisational innovation but not process innovation that again demonstrate greater … productivity than rms that do not adopt process innovation but not organisational innovation. Finally, we establish that product …
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after 1800 and link their annual productivity with the incidence of wars. We construct age-productivity profiles and find … that the impact of wars on creative production is markedly heterogeneous - composers’ productivity was significantly higher …
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stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more …
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