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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs
Michaud, Marie-Laure; Kramarz, Francis - 2004
In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261918
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271755
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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more … 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233870
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703134
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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs
Kramarz, Francis; Michaud, Marie-Laure - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822725
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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2013
raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328962
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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael P. - 2010
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278423
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Speeding up the product cycle: The role of host country reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011
quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282151
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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884325
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Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353426