Similar Search Results

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

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

increase in large retail chains' concentration it induced, slowed down employment growth in France. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405774

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 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814316

Effects of e-commerce on local labor markets

Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofia - 2023

This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319158

Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics

Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2018

were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958935

Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study

Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422194

Design and implementation of pay for performance

Gibbs, Michael - 2012

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice. -- incentives ; pay for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530776

Unemployment insurance as a worker indiscipline device? : evidence from scanner data

Lusher, Lester; Schnorr, Geoffrey C.; Taylor, Rebecca - 2021

We provide causal evidence of an ex ante moral hazard effect of Unemployment Insurance (UI) by matching plausibly exogenous changes in UI benefit duration across state-weeks during the Great Recession to high-frequency productivity measures from individual supermarket cashiers. Estimating models...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431633

Quality and price setting of high-tech goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419306

Persistent overconfidence and biased memory : evidence from managers

Huffman, David; Raymond, Collin; Shvets, Julia - 2023

A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using reduced form and structural methods we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311540

Trade and capital flows: substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation

Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099470

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last