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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138258
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The Costs of Agglomeration : Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096770
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity), possibly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107198
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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107199
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies : Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2013
and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of 17,653 firms over the period 1986-2001 in France, 8,725 firms over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085064
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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942047
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The Production Function for Housing : Evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2016
housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978173
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Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes : Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2014
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054581
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Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2015
European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape firms' operational environment in general and … using firm-level data in Chile – a non-OECD member under the considered time period – and France. We rely on two extensions …-2001 in France, we first classify 20 comparable manufacturing industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in the type of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016354
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Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we … bargaining process in France over the considered period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144931