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Technology and the demand for skill : an analysis of within and between firm differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Lane, Julia; … - 2007

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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Top team diversity and business performance : latent class analysis for firms and cities

Nathan, Max - 2014

A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...

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Product markets and paychecks : deregulation's effect on the compensation structure in banking

Wozniak, Abigail K. (contributor) - 2006

This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the Employment Cost Index Survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, I obtain measures of the...

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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2010

. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 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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Who do unions target? : unionization over the life-cycle of US businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...

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Energy prices, pass-through, and incidence in U.S. manufacturing

Ganapati, Sharat; Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2016

pass-through, a demand elasticity, and a price-cost markup are sufficient to characterize the relative change in welfare …

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Firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions in an open economy

Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R. - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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