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with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …
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this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been … required for the creation or extension of any large retail store in France. We exploit a unique database that provides time and … increase in large retail chains? concentration it induced, slowed down employment growth in France. …
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-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …
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We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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transportation and warehousing, industries complementary to e-commerce. Within the in-state retail sector, the decline in brick … general equilibrium model in which consumers substitute e-commerce for big-box purchases, crowding out brick-and-mortar retail. …
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with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822914
this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been … required for the creation or extension of any large retail store in France. We exploit a unique database that provides time and … increase in large retail chains’ concentration it induced, slowed down employment growth in France. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763671
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … that each Wal-Mart worker replaces approximately 1.4 retail workers. This represents a 2.7 percent reduction in average …
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This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on particular subsectors within retail trade that are identified as particularly low …
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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we …
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