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Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...
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Climate change may damage road infrastructure to the potential detriment of economic growth, particularly in developing countries. To quantitatively assess climate change's consequences, we construct a climate-infrastructure model based on stressor-response relationships and link this to a...
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The development of the service sector in the People's Republic of China has not kept pace with the country's overall economic development. The share of employment in services is still lagging behind that of output and is also below the international norm. Moving from traditional services to...
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The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … investment. While India is among the top 10 World Trade Organization members in service exports and imports, the growth and …
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direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose … economies' growth prospects in a post-COVID world. Based on analysis of firm-level data, we highlight the prerequisites of …
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Using evidence from Colombia, the authors study the relationship between firms' productivity and their export market …
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This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …
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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters (2008) and the adaptations for Latin America of Crespi...
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We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …
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