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Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality: Insights from Studies on Transition
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Svejnar, Jan - 2016
From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559657
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Do social preferences increase productivity? Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005
participants who face a social dilemma in their daily lives (i.e., team production), we do find strong links between the social … endogeously with respect to how widely team production is utilized. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267470
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409406
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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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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959698
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010604486
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Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Seki, Erika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
participants who face a social dilemma in their daily lives (i.e., team production), we do find strong links between the social … endogeously with respect to how widely team production is utilized. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761899
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Macroeconomic derivatives: an initial analysis of market-based macro forecasts, uncertainty and risk
Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Wolfers, Justin - 2005
. Finally we assess the role of risk, finding little evidence that risk-aversion drives a wedge between market prices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267681
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Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope
Roider, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that only if exogenous risk is sufficiently large, the risk-neutral principal … may prefer to delegate authority over decisions to the risk-averse agent. Intuitively, for incentive reasons, the … principal may optimally want to allow the agent to reduce his risk exposure. Nevertheless, even endogenous risk may be higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703275
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Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s
Calderon-Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - 2004
This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and patterns of job creation and destruction across their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261765