inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs … production process and the definition of labor input as the product of employment and effective hours worked per worker. …

Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production … firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production precludes production efficiency. It reduces welfare when labor supply is … net wage. This would counteract the distortion of labor supply arising from wage taxation. Full privatization is never …

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

in the production process, "production lags" for short. The broad intuition is that production activities in a modern … economy are interconnected through complex input-output relations, with production lags within individual firms, and that it …

empirical research. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a higher proportion of outsourcing activity reduces the … unemployment. Finally, we characterize the optimal production mode and show that stronger labour market imperfections lead to a … production mode with a higher share of outsourcing. …