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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011
. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …
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Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu
Kar, Saibal - 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The aging population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...
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Hiring Through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
Dariel, Aurelie - 2019
Information asymmetries can prevent markets from operating efficiently. An important example is the labor market, where employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine theoretically and with laboratory experiments three key questions related to hiring via...
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014
, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021
in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer - 2015
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending : Theory and Empirical Evidence
Marchesi, Silvia - 2014
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if … intuition, labor market competition does not destroy but may indeed foster within-firm cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316936