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This paper provides an extensive review of the literatures on product and labor market regulations and their effects on labor market outcomes. It uncovers the interdependence of these two types of regulations, an area that has received limited attention in research. The paper highlights why...
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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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.6 percentage points and weekly earnings by 3.4%. Most of this earnings effect comes from productivity improvements, while the …
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structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …
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How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …
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labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
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aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …
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values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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training program along three dimensions: employment, job-related skills and productivity. We find that respondents score …
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This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …
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