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Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2009
-industry covariance between size and productivity across countries, and this variation is affected by the presence of idiosyncratic …-country patterns of the within-industry covariance between productivity and size and thus help to explain the observed differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271801
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Creative destruction and productivity growth in an emerging economy : evidence from Slovenian manufacturing
De Loecker, Jan; Konings, Jozef - 2003
transition process in Slovenian manufacturing has been one of just destruction or in contrast one of creative destruction. To … to slowly reforming transition economies where the transition process in manufacturing is characterized by little job …In most transition countries the aggregate level evidence suggests that most industries are just destroying jobs, due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261662
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Does anti-competitive regulation matter for productivity? Evidence from European firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, … - 2011
on firm-level TFP growth. We proxy regulatory burdens using the OECD indicators of sectoral non-manufacturing regulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278787
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261614
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861413
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822184
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
. A brief empirical analysis of the impact of firing costs on the size of exiting firms supports the model’s conclusions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763918
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-industry covariance between size and productivity across countries, and this variation is affected by the presence of idiosyncratic …-country patterns of the within-industry covariance between productivity and size and thus help to explain the observed differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514865
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Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296506
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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233870