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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 … increase in large retail chains' concentration it induced, slowed down employment growth in France. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405774
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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 … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814316
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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%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752842
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New estimates of the effects of minimum wages in the U.S. retail trade sector
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737641
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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2009
growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896189
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Racial and ethnic discrimination in local consumer markets : exploiting the army's procedures for matching personnel to duty locations
Antecol, Heather (contributor);  … - 2006
We use the exogenous assignment of Army personnel to duty locations to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report...
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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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The effects of Wal-Mart on local labor markets
Neumark, David (contributor); Zhang, Junfu (contributor);  … - 2007
, and only imply lower retail employment growth than would have occurred absent the effects of Wal-Mart. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003525910
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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?
Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012
We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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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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