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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 …
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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis - 2013
framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …
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The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality : A Comparative Study for Britain and France
Bryson, Alex - 2017
-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The … associated with non-pecuniary job quality in both countries but in France the association is confined to only the largest firms …
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
de Haan, Monique - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across municipalities. We find that reducing the number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils'...
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
Heshmati, Almas - 2011
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...
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The Measurement of Child Costs : A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...
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The Economies of Scale of Living Together and How They are Shared : Estimates Based on a Collective Household Model
Bütikofer, Aline - 2009
How large are the economies of scale of living together? And how do partners share their resources? The first question is usually answered by equivalence scales. Traditional estimation and application of equivalence scales assumes equal sharing of income within the household. This paper uses...
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Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
van Praag, Mirjam - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as...
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Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals : Evidence from Australia
Wang, Jian - 2007
Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by applying a stochastic-frontier multiproduct cost function. We use a flexible translog cost function to reduce the measurement errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main...
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