Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the … industry is increasing in the size of the downstream market and decreasing in the average marginal cost of the industry and in …

The market is a place where people behave quite relentlessly. If one person is selling a particular commodity at a … an exceptional one. Thus, the assumption that the market is a relentless place is acceptable as a first approximation ot …

are 42% larger than SIC-based estimates, with at least 70,000 more companies. We also find ICT employment shares over …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant …

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United … States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …