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This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness, and determinants of product switching by US manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...
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Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially … the introduction of a minimum wage to the UK labour market in 1999. We use pre-policy information on the distribution of … reductions resulted in increases in firm exit, so our findings may be consistent with redistribution of quasi-rents towards low …
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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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with firms’ innovation and entry decisions, which determine the economy’s growth rate. To study this link between … relationship between growth, misallocation and welfare. It stresses the importance of entry. An increase in entry reduces … misallocation by fostering competition. If entry also increases the economy-wide growth rate, static misallocation and growth are …
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This paper develops an empirical model of entry to analyze the effect of previous regulation on European airlines? post … perceived quality, leading to a situation in which they are less likely to enter a route, but also less likely to exit. …
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labour on banks’ entry decisions in the local credit markets, now defined in terms of provinces. …
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This paper investigates wage disparities across sub-national labour markets in Britain using anewly available microdata …
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-generated content (UGC) as a kind of apprenticeship labour. Based on case studies of four young Montréalers engaged in creating user …-generated content, the author developed the apprenticeship-type model of UGC labour to denote a process by which online immaterial … labour or “free labour” coincides with self-directed and informal job training, channelled specifically toward a career in …
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