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Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-Overs in Firms

Böheim, René - 2015

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …

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Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - CESifo - 2010

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …

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Government Outsourcing : Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose...

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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - CESifo - 2006

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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The Elasticity of Derived Demand, Factor Substitution and Product Demand : Corrections to Hicks' Formula and Marshall's Four Rules

Chirinko, Robert S. - 2006

Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...

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