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Do business groups help or hinder technological progress in emerging markets? : evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Zhou, Ying - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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Does anti-competitive regulation matter for productivity? : evidence from European firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, … - 2011
Using firm-level data for a sample of European countries, we focus on the effects that product-market regulations have on firm-level TFP growth. We proxy regulatory burdens using the OECD indicators of sectoral non-manufacturing regulations. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of...
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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance : a review of cross country evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio (contributor) - 2005
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical contributions that use cross country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a brief review of the theoretical literature and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225978
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201282
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Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …-sponsored training ; labor market frictions ; product market competition ; matched worker-firm data …
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"Make-or-buy" of peripheral services in manufacturing : evidence from Spanish plant-level data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2013
correlated with increases in the plant's market share as well as increases in product market competition and product prices … industry. -- make-or-buy ; peripheral services ; manufacturing ; market share ; competition …
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Business culture : the role of personal and impersonal business relationships on market efficiency
Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019
different degrees of contract enforceability and competition. Our main results indicate that business-is-family cultures are …
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A product market theory of worker training
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004 - revised: February 2004
employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …
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Short notice, big difference? : the effect of temporary employment on firm competitiveness across sectors
Giuliano, Romina; Kampelmann, Stephan; Mahy, Benoît; … - 2017
This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved workplace characteristics, endogeneity and state...
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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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