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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
heterogeneity in productivity and factor prices symmetrically. The strength of the proposed estimator is illustrated by Monte Carlo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268849
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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269333
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The quality-complementarity hypothesis: theory and evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2009
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277014
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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261832
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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
Lemos, Sara - 2004
A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261833
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261848
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
Lemos, Sara - 2004
This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data used is an under-explored monthly Brazilian household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261885
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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Lemos, Sara - 2004
Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical identification and data issues. An explanation, however, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261887
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Is child labor harmful? The impact of working earlier in life on adult earnings
Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, André Portela - 2007
instrumental variables earnings model on data from Brazil show that child labor has a large negative impact on adult earnings for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268200
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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269117