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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
Fakih, Ali - 2013
This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the probability of exporting and the export intensity of...
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Exports and Labor Demand : Evidence from Egyptian Firm-Level Data
Berg, Claudia N.; Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2022
. In this paper, we build upon the earlier work of Robertson et al. (2021) to investigate why increased Egyptian exports … did not directly increase employment. To illustrate the relationship between firm-level exporting and employment, we …) in 2013, 2016, and 2020. Our firm-level microanalysis demonstrates that while there is a positive employment response to …
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Earnings-Tenure Profiles:Tests of Agency and Human Capital TheoriesUsing Individual Performance Data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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Earnings-Tenure Profiles : Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data
Jones, Derek C.; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Kato, Takao - 2021
urban workers than for migrant workers with far more limited alternative employment opportunities …
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja - 2013
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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