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Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …

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Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien; MAIRESSE, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...

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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products

Scotchmer, Suzanne; Park, Yooki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...

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Intra-Industry Trade with Bertrand and Cournot Oligopoly: The Role of Endogenous Horizontal Product Differentiation

Brander, James A.; Spencer, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

from trade under Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly. Firms differentiate their products to mitigate competition, but only if …

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Export or Merge? Proximity vs. Concentration in Product Space

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...

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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy

Davis, Steven; Henrekson, Magnus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...

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Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

Freeman, Richard B.; Rehavi, M. Marit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet communication: the AFL-CIO's Working America, a "community affiliate" that enrolled 2 million workers from 2004 to 2007 by canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet...

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Compensation Structure and Product Market Competition

Abowd, John M.; Allain, Laurence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

The inability to measure the opportunity cost of labor has plagued analyses of firm-level compensation policies for many years. Using a newly constructed data set of French workers and firms, we estimate the opportunity cost of the employees' time based on a measure of the person-effect in the...

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Falling Union Membership and Rising Wage Inequality: What's the Connection?

Card, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

This paper presents new evidence on the effects of changing union membership on trends in wage dispersion in the U.S. labor market. I use data from the mid-1970s and early 1990s to compare union membership rates for workers in different deciles of the wage distribution, and to calculate the...

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Industrial Actions in Schools: Strikes and Student Achievement

Baker, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...

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