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Estimating production functions in differentiated-product industries with quantity information and external instruments

Roux, Nicolás de; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2020

This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance …

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Management as a technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality …

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Managerial practices and students' performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link …

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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure

Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, … - 2011

This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...

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Labour demand research : towards a better match between better theory and better data

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2014

At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...

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Unconditional and conditional wage polarization in Europe

Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - 2014

This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional - on technology - wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On...

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Heterogeneity in union status and employee well-being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael J. - 2012

This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...

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The determinants of firm performance : unions, works councils, and employee involvement/high performance work practices

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2005

representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links … between these two historically separate literatures. The interaction between worker representation and high performance work …-determined hierarchy for productivity performance and certainly no blue-print for the future of unions. -- worker representation ; employee …

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