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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021
market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324752
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108628
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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco - 2013
politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087417
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127958
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Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants' remittance behavior. In this study, networks are defined as groups of immigrants from the same country that live in the same locality. Using the National Immigrant Survey, a unique database for Spain, immigrants are found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126135
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Social Norms in Networks
Ushchev, Philip - 2019
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859300
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Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China : A Spatial Autoregressive Model
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2017
This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours, and provide less insurance or on-the-job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948656
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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Basu, Arnab K. - 2011
Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in developing countries. The first is that the informal (or unregulated) sector is more competitive than the formal (or regulated) sector. The second is that contract enforcement is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122167
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Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution
Webber, Douglas A. - 2013
Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive relationship between a firm's labor supply elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083092
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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
Autor, David H. - 2017
. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963787