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Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry
Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019
quantity metrics. Consistent with manufacturing studies, we find market entrants have lower prices and higher Total Factor … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180002
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies TFP as the right summary measure of welfare (even in situations … (industries or firms) to aggregate welfare using readily available TFP data. Based on this finding, we compute firm and industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269431
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Productivity and the welfare of nations
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2012
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286892
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541274
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Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies TFP as the right summary measure of welfare (even in situations … (industries or firms) to aggregate welfare using readily available TFP data. Based on this finding, we compute firm and industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514853
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409406
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959698
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico
Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis-Felipe; … - 2020
leveraging the richness of five rounds of the Mexican Manufacturing Census between 1994 and 2014. The data allow estimation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207828
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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2020
from the Colombian manufacturing survey, focusing on producers of rubber and plastic products. Assuming constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497907
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Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion
Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022
An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426443