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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private ownership will enhance company performance, measured in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780018
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices : Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
domestic products) reference price system.We find that while our estimated consumer compensating variation is small, the reform …
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How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2015
We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals … analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja - 2013
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836579
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Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development
Berlinski, Samuel - 2020
supply side, child care providers make entry, price, and quality decisions under monopolistic competition. Child development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843167
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Fake News
Grunewald, Andreas - 2017
In the last decade, social media and the Internet have amplified the possibility to spread false information, a.k.a. fake news, which has become a serious threat to the credibility of politicians, organizations, and other decision makers. This paper proposes a framework for investigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940850
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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