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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Pflüger, Michael P.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
the tightening of domestic market selection also affects exporting decisions for domestic and foreign firms. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103278
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822184
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the … importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In the model, growth is driven by selection among heterogeneous incumbent … continuing firms raises growth by promoting selection. Also charging them to exiting firms is akin to an exit tax, hampers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763918
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Labour Market Regulation, Productivity-Improving R&D and Endogenous Growth
Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We present a growth model in which R&D increases productivity, union-firm bargaining determines the distribution of rents and the government can support unions by labour market regulation. We show that if unions are initially very strong, regulation increases only the workers’ profit share and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762381
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Economic Integration, Market Power and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine a common market which expands by integrating new regions. Capitalists are strategically interdependent through the goods market and they improve their productivity through R&D. Production and R&D employ unionized workers. The purpose of integration is to maximize a weighed average of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703176
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
Kar, Saibal; Marjit, Sugata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323392
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Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761839
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From Estimation Results to Stylized Facts: Twelve Recommendations for Empirical Research in International Activities of Heterogeneous Firms
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of micro-econometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564712
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695866
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
' border effect, relative and absolute wage effects, and a selection effect. Using the estimated parameter values, we then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822765