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structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
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relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …
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. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in Mexican manufacturing, however, does not provide support for this … conclusion. Although we find that labour productivity levels vary almost in direct relation to establishment size, labour … productivity growth shows no systematic variation by size class. In fact, small establishments have had the same rate of labour …
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The recent emergence in the industrial organization literature of a wave of studies identifying small firms as being at least as innovative as their larger counterparts poses something of a paradox. Where do small firms get their knowledge generating inputs? The purpose of this paper is to link...
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worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this …
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In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity … occupational choice within this framework. We fully calibrate our model to data from India for the early 2000's. We find that … manufacturing TFP existing between the US and India. …
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Survey information on Swiss exporters is used to test the hypothesis that firm-specific factors, in particular firm size, are important determinants of pricing--to-market (PTM). The survey asked exporters whether they set different prices across markets and, if so, whether price segmentation...
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Stochastic frontier production functions are estimated for Bulgarian (1993–5) and Romanian (1994–5) manufacturing industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across industrial sectors in each country. We find strong...
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We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
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This paper constructs a new measure of currency mismatch in the banking sector that controls for bank lending to unhedged borrowers. This measure explicitly takes into account the indirect exchange rate risk that banks undertake when they lend to borrowers that will not be able to repay in the...
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