[PDF] Top 20 Good Firms, Worker Flows and Productivity

... and worker e¤ects to be ...from good …rms to other …rms as ...a good compromise because (a): it guarantees a long enough panel for the AKM estimation, (b) it allows consideration of all the possible ... See full document

... the productivity advantages of …rms located near other highly productive ...factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in US counties that were able to attract one of these large plants increases ... See full document

... as productivity shocks, from those generated within the job search/matching system, Fujita (2011) uses VAR models to explore the interrelationships between the ins and outs of unemployment and vacancy rates in the ... See full document

... match-specific productivity levels is present in Jo- vanovic (1979) and other articles that use his framework to address worker ...intrinsic productivity used by Gibbons and Katz (1991) among ... See full document

... We use the generalized spillover measure (GSM) of Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) to investigate the shocks propagating mechanism between variables and regions. GSM is currently among the most popular tools for investi- gating ... See full document

... For analytical tractability, the literature on learning focuses on models that make stark assumptions about the form of learning. On one hand, matching models like Jovanovic (1979) assume that all learning is specific to ... See full document

... 1) worker and job flow rates are considerably high in Italy, also in com- parison with the other European Countries; 2) worker flow rates are very different at the regional level, even after controlling for ... See full document

... and worker flows. According to the results, regional productivity, which also reflects the profitability of firms situated in a region, helps to explain a large part of differences in regional ... See full document

... foreign-owned firms and domestic ...to firms that served only the Irish market, foreign-owned firms were more likely to invest in innovation by 13 percentage points and domestic exporters by 23 ... See full document

... A substantial part of the increase results from scale efficiency Scale Change (sech). Furthermore, it is observed that TFP is above one for five years, but below one for seven years. In other words, TFP decreased for ... See full document

... Many countries in APEC face serious challenges from the intersection of population ageing and the high incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These factors will lead, in some countries, to declining populations ... See full document

... productive firms abate more and have lower pollution inten- ...productive firms, trade also reallocates resources towards less pollution intensive firms, reducing overall pollution ...of firms ... See full document

... related firms rather than individual ...to productivity and to emphasise and enhance the cross-company linkages and complementarities that facilitate and generate business competitive ... See full document

... between firms’ one - year lagged R&D expenditure (t- 1), firms’ one -year lagged profitability (t-1), firms ’ one-year lagged sales r evenue, and firms’ R&D intensity, in the period ... See full document

... zero. Firms in both models were supposed to maximize their profits over time by making a decision about participation in the goods’ market, the level of investment and the source of ... See full document

... multinational firms into a region induces the exit of low-productivity local firms from the market and the extent to which this improves regional ...in productivity distribution of local ... See full document

... a worker, a factor that we call human ...The worker (seller) can offer a more personal (human touch) to the task whereas the machine (vending machine) offers an impersonal ...and worker imperfect ... See full document

... indicating the go vernment’s commitment to address the country’s socio -economic issues. Nonetheless, agriculture performance continued to be unimpressive between 2000 and 2005, as it fell by 6.6 percent in 2005, partly ... See full document

... a worker discipline ...on worker behaviour, and the danger of the employer behaving opportunistically, would be characterized by the NSC shifting downward and to the rights, implying this way lower ... See full document

... Age and age squared variables have significant effect on earnings across quantiles and the sign pattern suggests age- earnings profiles are concave. The coefficients of job tenure variable are generally insignificant ... See full document