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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …

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Does entry regulation hinder job creation? : evidence from the French retail industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate …

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Labour turnover and labour productivity in a retail organization

Siebert, William S.; Zubanov, Nikolay; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - 2006

"We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over1995-1999. For the within-shop link -- holding constant the shop's permanent characteristics -- we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover...

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Management economics in a large retail organization

Siebert, William S. (contributor); … - 2008

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...

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The effect of announced downsizing on workplace performance : evidence from a retail Chain

Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Zubanov, Nick - 2016

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...

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The effect of statutory sick pay regulations on workers' health

Halla, Martin; Pech, Susanne; Zweimüller, Martina - 2015

Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....

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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis

Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012

, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …

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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009

Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West …

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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries : a case study of Upper Bavaria

Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001

Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...

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Subject of degree and the gender wage differential : evidence from the UK and Germany

Machin, Stephen; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in …

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