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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014

Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...

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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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Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training

Picchio, Matteo - 2010

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote …

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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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Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness Across Sectors

Giuliano, Romina - 2017

This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved workplace characteristics, endogeneity and state...

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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages : Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bockerman, Petri - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

Prantl, Susanne - 2009

differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …-employment and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our …

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

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Investment Under Company-Level Pacts

Bellmann, Lutz - 2013

econometric results show that the company-level pacts' success depends on the specific measures which are agreed and on the …

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