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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

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...

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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

Autor, David H. - 2017

al. (2017), we evaluate and confirm two core claims of the superstar firm hypothesis: the concentration of sales among … firms within industries has risen across much of the private sector; and industries with larger increases in concentration …

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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

Autor, David H. - 2017

firms in each industry, product market concentration will rise as industries become increasingly dominated by superstar … increasingly concentrate in a small number of firms; industries where concentration rises most will have the largest declines in … share will be greatest in the sectors with the largest increases in market concentration; and finally, such patterns will be …

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Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality

Cortes, Guido Matias - 2020

shocks that increase concentration will also lead to an increase in wage dispersion between firms. Empirically, we use …-tically significant correlation between concentration and between-firm wage inequality, driven by increases in market shares and wages in …

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Entry, Exit and Productivity : Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...

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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries - the quality-upgrading mechanism - and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants. In a model with heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only...

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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entryand Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault; Scarpetta, Stefano - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creativedestruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping thisprocess, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms´ decision to enter, to expandif successful and to exit if...

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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...

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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011

Using firm-level data for a sample of European countries, we focus on the effects that product-market regulations have on firm-level TFP growth. We proxy regulatory burdens using the OECD indicators of sectoral non-manufacturing regulations. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of...

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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Poschke, Markus - 2010

In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...

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