La reforma laboral y el Outsourcing
Gregg, P.; Gardiner, L. 2015. A steady job? The UK’s record on labour market security and stability since the millennium (United Kingdom, Resolution Foundation).
Myers, S.; Majluf, N.S. 1984. “Corporate financing and investment decisions when firms have information that investors do not have”, in Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 187–221.
This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to lower tariffs on intermediate inputs. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs can raise productivity via learning, variety, or quality effects. We use Indonesian manufacturing census data from 1991 to 2001, which includes plant-level information on imported inputs. The results show that the largest gains arise from reducing input tariffs. A 10 percentage point fall in output tariffs increases productivity by about 1 percent, whereas an equivalent fall in input tariffs leads to a 3 percent productivity gain for all firms and an 11 percent productivity gain for importing firms.
Trade Finance and the Great Trade Collapse by JaeBin Ahn, Mary Amiti and David E. Weinstein. Published in volume 101, issue 3, pages 298-302 of American Economic Review, May 2011, Abstract: Economic models that do not incorporate financial frictions only explain about 70 to 80 percent of the decline...
Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring by Maarten Goos, Alan Manning and Anna Salomons. Published in volume 104, issue 8, pages 2509-26 of American Economic Review, August 2014, Abstract: This paper documents the pervasiveness of job polarization in 16 Wester...
Wilfred J. Ethier, National and International Returns to Scale in the Modern Theory of International Trade, The American Economic Review, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Jun., 1982), pp. 389-405
The effect of financing frictions on firm productivity growth is not well understood. Using a model we show that a rise in financial frictions leads to increase
Knowledge and innovation for cooperative and social enterprises.
Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Training and Innovation, Journal of Human Capital, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 2009), pp. 323-353
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This paper reports on the findings of an exploratory survey research whose main purpose was to explore electronic commerce benefits and adoption barriers in small and med..
Les inégalités économiques: applications aux inégalités des richesses, à la ... - R. Gibrat - Google Books
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This note draws from an emerging literature on firm informality as well as data collected on micro enterprises and informal firms as part of the World Bank’s enterprise survey initiative for Kenya. The purpose of the note is to assess the main constraints facing informal firms, identify patterns of productivity and firm dynamics, and better understand drivers for formalization. Section one provides an overview of key characteristics and main investment climate constraints facing informal firms. In section two, patterns of informal firm finance are explored, while in sections three and four, labor productivity and drivers of firm growth are analyzed. Section five examines incentives to remain informal and policies that can catalyze formalization. This is followed by a conclusion. Due to the sampling methodology used, all results pertain to the sample of surveyed firms; hence, due caution is necessary in extrapolating the results to the broader informal sector in Kenya. Nevertheless, the assessment of the surveyed firms could provide important information on identifying policies as well as firm-level support that could boost productivity and catalyze formalization. This could have important implications for economic growth and job creation in Kenya.
Paul Osterman is the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Professor of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
This paper offers a meta-analytic review of the relationship between organiza tional size and innovation. Using 36 correlations derived from 20 published studies, the review finds a positive relati...
Downloadable! We construct and estimate a modified version of the Crépon, Duguet and Mairesse (1998) model to investigate the links between R&D, innovation output and productivity. We propose a model specification that, among other features, aims to better capture the variance component of the cooperation and obstacles to innovation variables. Results based on Finnish CIS data support this alternative specification and highlight the role of process innovations. We also address comparability over time within the same country, by comparing Finnish CIS3 and CIS4 estimates. Despite CIS harmonisation, both sample selection issues and nuances in the specification of the variables prove to have a profound effect on the results, and question the validity of this currently popular comparison exercises.
