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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...

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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education

Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282162

Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Evidence from new Japanese data

Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2007

consistent with the theory) is that the adoption of both self-managed online teams and cross-functional offline teams usually … in firms with joint labor-management committees. We also confirm implications from our theory that firms in more …

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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009

We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...

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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009

differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …-employment and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our …

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

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Minimum wages as a barrier to entry: Evidence from Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kroeger, Hanna - 2012

in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived …

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Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations

Messina, Julián - 2003

The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, economy-wide barriers to entry...

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Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2006

This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the exit-and-entry (extensive) margin, and the hiring-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize...

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