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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762118
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Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U.S. markets to examine the decisions of competing firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763638
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Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the startup was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative data set of 4,568 German...
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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788726
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What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination
Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economic deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road … deregulation and union coverage fell slowly, while in TL both the union differential and union coverage fell sharply. We review …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652529
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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703671
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?
Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers’ job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163482
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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884258
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Immigration and Labor Productivity: New Empirical Evidence for Spain
Nicodemo, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The purpose of this paper of this paper is to explore the immigration and productivity in Spain. We estimate the effect … of immigration on labor productivity from 2004 until 2008 for Spain. Using firms (SABI) and individuals data (Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884345
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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To examine this twofold feature, we apply Blanchard and Katz's...
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