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Trade as an Engine of Creative Destruction: Mexican Experience with Chinese Competition
Iacovone, Leonardo; Rauch, Ferdinand; Winters, L. Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. We find that this shock causes selection at both firm and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646249
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In brief: Producing superstars for the economic World Cup
Pritchett, Lant; Viarengo, Martina - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
Martina Viarengo explore this challenge in the particular context of policy-making in Mexico. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416235
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Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico. Revisiting the Evidence
Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017026
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Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598185
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Sexism at work
Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598727
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Working or shirking?
Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact highlighted by phrases like "shirking from home". We report the results of a WFH experiment at Ctrip, a 13,000 employee NASDAQ listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598731
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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599240
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Austerity: Growth Costs and Post-Election Plans
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
The austerity programme of the coalition government knocked at least one percent per year off growth in the first two years of this Parliament. In retrospect, this looks like a mistake and the slower pace of austerity in 2012 to 2013 and thereafter was welcome (as was the setting up of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196719
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Productivity and Business Policies
Roland, Isabelle; Valero, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203044
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Big ideas: How competition improves management and productivity
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147094