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Skill shortages in German establishments

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2014

This paper investigates the development of skill shortage during the period 2007-2012. Using the IAB establishment panel, we find differences for the years before, during and after the Great Recession. Furthermore, we analyze the importance of firm characteristics and that of some specific...

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Cross-sectional heterogeneity in price-cost margins and the extent of rent sharing at the sector and firm level in France

Dobbelaere, Sabien (contributor); … - 2005

This paper studies cross-sectional heterogeneity in price-cost margins and the extent of rent sharing among 48 sectors and 10738 (mainly manufacturing) firms in France. At the sectoral level, the average price-cost mark-up and the average extent of rent sharing amount to 1.701 and 0.368...

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Oligopsony, institutions and the efficiency of general training

Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Gylfi Zoega - 2002

product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology requires generally trained workers, firms may therefore receive part …

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Business cycle effects of credit and technology shocks in a DSGE model with firm defaults

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - 2011

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possible leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …

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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2008

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...

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Institutional determinants of new firm entry in Russia : a cross regional analysis

Bruno, Randolph Luca (contributor); … - 2008

We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...

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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives : theory and evidence on compensation systems

Encinosa, William E. (contributor); … - 2005

When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...

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Wages, employment, and capital in capitalist and worker-owned firms

Pencavel, John H. (contributor); … - 2006

Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker-managed firms. These differences are related to orthodox...

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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2009

This paper examines the change in operating and financial performance of Swedish firms that were either partly or fully privatized during the period of 1989-2007. Two different methods are used to empirically investigate the performance of privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and...

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Supply theory sans profit-maximization

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a consistency postulate for a stochastic supply function that may be satisfied even if no underlying...

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