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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
-EB), we also relate our industry and firm-level estimates of price-cost mark-up and (relative) extent of rent sharing to … industry characteristics and firm-specific variables respectively …
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies : Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2013
prevailing in product and labor markets. For each of the three predominant regimes in each country, we then investigate industry …
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Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline
Boulhol, Herve; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2021
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
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Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Children's Academic Performance in China
Nong, Huifu; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Hongjia; Zhu, Rong - 2021
This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
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A New Approach to Testing Marginal ProductivityTheory
Biewen, Martin; Weiser, Constantin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginalproducts. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify productionfunctions and to compare marginal products to factor payments. Our approach is based on asimple equation that directly...
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of AnnualLabor Income in Panel Surveys from aCross-National Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets(German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of itemnon-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means tocope with this type of measurement...
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution ofMarket Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period1992 to 2001 on the basis of an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the GermanSocio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this integrated data set is that it encompassesthe whole spectrum of the...
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