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Give me your wired and your highly skilled : measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2011
quantitative impact of immigrants on employer profit, and which employers are most likely to gain (suffer) increased (reduced …) profits as a result of immigration. Using event study analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the profit of … this bill and analyze whether and by how much its passage increased shareholders' profit. The empirical results show that …
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Say pays! : shareholder voice and firm performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414206
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Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency : selection on productivity or profitability?
Foster, Lucia (contributor);  … - 2005
There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...
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Decomposing excess returns in stochastic linear models
Lin, Carl - 2011
We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition result from two random linear functions in which the result can be applied to most models using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524390
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It's where you work : increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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Reconciling the divergence in aggregate US wage series
Champagne, Julien; Kurmann, André; Stewart, Jay Charles - 2016
According to data from the Labor Productivity and Costs (LPC) program, average hourly real compensation in the United States has grown consistently over time and become markedly more volatile since the mid-1980s. By contrast, data from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) imply that average...
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What do unions do for economic performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Chinese unions and enterprises performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013
unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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Competition and innovation : the breakup of IG Farben
Poege, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed...
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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
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