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Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope : A Nonparametric Methodology

Cherchye, L. - 2006

In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from joint input use and input externalities. We provide a nonparametric characterization of cost...

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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2023

A series of articles beginning with Basu and Van (1989) argue that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing in the sense that, once an equilibrium where only adults work is established, parents may have no incentive to depart from it, and the ban is no longer required. This important result...

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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm : The Impact of Training in Retail

Hinerasky, Christiane - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …

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Performance Pay and Prior Learning : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Manthei, Kathrin - 2018

We run two field experiments within a large retail chain showing that the effectiveness of performance pay crucially …

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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets : Exploiting the Army's Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Antecol, Heather - 2011

We use the exogenous assignment of Army personnel to duty locations to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report...

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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data

Haskel, Jonathan - 2012

with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …

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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets

Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen M. - 2021

We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … that each Wal-Mart worker replaces approximately 1.4 retail workers. This represents a 2.7 percent reduction in average …

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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization

Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nick; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - 2021

We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over 1995-1999. For the within-shop link - holding constant the shop's permanent characteristics - we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover...

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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido - 2016

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...

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