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Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage
Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price...
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Comparing Real Wage Rates
Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual basis for such measures, provide some historical examples, and then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884346
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
Epstein, Gil S.; Menis, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959698
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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703134
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514865
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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627855
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Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. …
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Kausale Evaluation von Pilotprojekten: Die Nutzung von Randomisierung in der Praxis
Arni, Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Wirkungsevaluationen stehen oft vor der Herausforderung, Kausalität zwischen der betrachteten neuen Politikmassnahme und den resultierenden Outcomes herzustellen. Mangelnde Vergleichbarkeit zwischen der Programmgruppe (neue Politik) und der Kontrollgruppe (Status Quo) macht oft eine kausale...
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