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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268849
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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition: Evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278683
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328902
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Micro-evidence on rent sharing from different perspectives
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare across-industry heterogeneity in rent-sharing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269757
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Treating equals unequally: incentives in teams, workers' motivation and production technology
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274018
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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the … industries into six different regimes depending on the type of competition in the product and the labor market. By far the most … predominant regime is one of imperfect competition in the product market and efficient bargaining in the labor market (IC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274657
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Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822822
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262784
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Competitive work environments and social preferences: field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005
as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267647
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Choice, competition and pupil achievement
Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2006
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267737