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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored...
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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution: Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2013
We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....
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A Bitter Medicine? Short-term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries
Bassanini, Andrea - 2015
There is evidence that pro-competitive reforms in an industry with large incumbents induce the latter to re-organise and reduce prices in an attempt to deter entry of new competitors. Using data for three broadly-defined network industries in 23 OECD countries and covering over 30 years, I show...
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Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2015
Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities...
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Corruption in the Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh
Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015
We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...
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The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality
Handwerker, Elizabeth; Spletzer, James R. - 2015
occupational concentration to wage inequality between establishments and its growth over time. We show that occupational … concentration plays an important role in wage determination for workers, in a wide variety of occupations, and can explain some … establishment-level wage variation. Occupational concentration is increasing during the 2000-2011 time period, although much of this …
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Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence
Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2015
Observationally equivalent workers are paid higher wages in larger firms. This fact is often named as the "firm-size wage gap" and is regarded as a key empirical puzzle. Using micro-level data from Turkey, we document a new stylized fact: the firm-size wage gap is more pronounced for informal...
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
Epstein, Gil S.; Menis, Joseph - 2013
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
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