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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
van Reenen, John; Garicano, Luis; LeLarge, Claire - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618284
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Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M.; Park, Kyoung Won - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727871
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Mortgage Broker Regulations That Matter: Analyzing Earnings, Employment, and Outcomes for Consumers
Kleiner, Morris M.; Todd, Richard M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
As the role of mortgage brokers in mortgage origination grew from insignificant in the 1980s to dominant in recent years, questions have arisen about whether its services help or harm consumers. In response, states have increasingly regulated the business, largely by creating and tightening...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720397
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies
Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764664
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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross; Beck, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084876
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Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope
Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms … firms. In our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828874
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An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel; Kramarz, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities stand out: (1) the number of French firms selling to a market, relative to French market share, increases systematically with market size; (2) sales distributions are very similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830348
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross; Beck, Thorsten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830798
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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes
Helper, Susan; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive … structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational … had an impact on productivity and profitability. We find that the UK plant's productivity and worker satisfaction was well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774713
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An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation
Lentz, Rasmus; Mortensen, Dale T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important … source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061559