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Behrens, Kristian - 2013

toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends …

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Productivity Dynamics : The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas - 2019

changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …

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Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2023

the theory with workplace data for Britain and Norway. Results are consistent with the theory: local union bargaining is …

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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments

Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …

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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms : Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?

Suedekum, Jens - 2012

Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...

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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Pflüger, Michael - 2009

present a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition with two (potentially) asymmetric countries and heterogeneous …

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Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Barth, Erling - 2017

We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...

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Matching in Cities

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2019

In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...

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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Papps, Kerry L. - 2019

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...

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