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store density, which is then related to the structure of wholesale channels. Next, some details on the Large Store Law of …
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three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale. Sectors where national concentration is rising have …
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and importers with 100 percent employment in wholesale and retail differ from pure "producer and consumer" trading firms ….S. establishments and are present in fewer U.S. states. "Mixed" firms, i.e., those with both production/consumption and wholesale retail …
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This paper studies how prices comove across products, firms and locations to gauge the relative importance of retailer versus manufacturer-level shocks in determining prices. I make use of a large panel data set on prices for a cross-section of retailers in the U.S. I analyze prices at the...
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Adoption of real-time electricity pricing -- retail prices that vary hourly to reflect changing wholesale prices … -- removes existing cross-subsidies to those customers that consume disproportionately more when wholesale prices are highest. If …
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, especially in manufacturing, retail, and wholesale, the labor share of a typical firm in these industries has risen. This paper …
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1950 by comparing workers in wholesale trade, a sector which was covered by the Act, with those in retail trade, a sector … employment in wholesale trade minimum wage provisions of the Act probably reduced it …
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The world's population is living longer but retiring earlier, and vast numbers of adults now spend as much as 1/3 of their lifetimes relying on public and private retirement benefits. Consequently, labor economists are interested in the forces driving retirement behavior, seeking to understand...
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Does entry regulation hinder job creation? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail industry, a … or predicted by the political composition of the boards, weakened employment growth in the retail industry. Our findings … indicate that retail employment could have been more than 10% higher today had entry regulation not been introduced. Promoting …
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Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers...
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