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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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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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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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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages : Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
Bockerman, Petri - 2016
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...
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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Bowmaker, Simon W. - 2009
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from the United States lends support to that hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of...
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Signaling in the Labor Market : New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a signal of productivity, and duration of...
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing
Ganapati, Sharat - 2016
changes in product prices (i.e., pass-through). We show that in markets characterized by imperfect competition, marginal cost …
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Learning-by-Doing and Productivity Growth Among High-Skilled Workers : Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks
Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021
Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we...
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
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