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Legal Regime and Business'S Organizational Choice : A Comparison of France and the United States

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - 2021

In a recent series of articles, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny have argued that countries whose legal systems are based on civil law (especially of French origin) have systematically weaker environments for business than those whose legal...

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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2015

Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...

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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

of factors highlighted in the theory are shown to be important in accounting for delegation, such as heterogeneity and …

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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Design

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021

This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market...

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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2018

This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the … immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and …

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The Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth

Bosler, Canyon - 2016

Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong—defying nearly all earlier projections—and has added around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture. Going forward, labor quality is likely to add considerably less and may even be a drag on...

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Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it...

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The Effects of Covid-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees

Alekseev, Georgij - 2020

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...

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Comparative Advantage and Unemployment

Bils, Mark - 2010

We model unemployment allowing workers to differ by comparative advantage in market work. Workers with comparative advantage are identified by who works more hours when employed. This enables us to test the model by grouping workers based on their long-term wages and hours from panel data. The...

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Median Stable Matching

Schwarz, Michael - 2010

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