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We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …
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We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...
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. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …
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Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of …
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The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …
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fields that standard measures of productivity – like output per worker or total factor productivity – vary substantially … productivity across firms mirror the trends in the wage inequality across workers. Two distinct literatures have searched for a … productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to more and …
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, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …
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We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
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