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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross country evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2005
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267501
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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822371
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Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?
Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015
productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307374
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International trade and its effects on economic growth in China
Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - 2010
improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of … international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274572
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of … international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611315
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17% compared to less able. We show that the managers' incentive scheme is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703534
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Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms
Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566634
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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398230
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291323
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Worker productivity and wages: Evidence from linked employer-employee data
Lopes, Ana Sofia; Teixeira, Paulino - 2012
This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm … proxy for unobserved worker productivity. Our results point to the presence of sizeable spillover effects from schooling and … training as their impact is bigger on firm-level productivity equations than on the corresponding worker-level equations. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291452