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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise

Chen, Donghua; Jiang, Dequan; Ljungqvist, Alexander; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We study the efficiency of internal capital markets at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using highly granular data on within-group capital flows, we document stark differences: while private groups allocate more capital to units with better investment opportunities,...

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"Loans for Shares" Revisited

Treisman, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The "loans for shares" scheme of 1995-6--in which a handful of well-connected businessmen bought stakes in major Russian companies--is widely considered a scandal that slowed subsequent Russian economic growth. Fifteen years later, I reexamine the details of the program. In light of evidence...

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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Farber, Henry S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...

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Technology and Labor Regulations: Theory and Evidence

Alesina, Alberto; Zeira, Joseph; Battisti, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation,...

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Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo; MAIRESSE, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on two extensions of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...

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Who do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Greenwood, Jeremy; Dinlersoz, Emin; Hyatt, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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External Job Churning and Internal Job Flexibility

Neumark, David; Cappelli, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

three measures of instability and insecurity - voluntary and involuntary turnover and the use of contingent work - drawn … with reduced voluntary and involuntary turnover in manufacturing. But in the rest of the economy and indeed overall, they … related to involuntary turnover even in manufacturing. The evidence therefore suggests that on net employers seeking …

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Union Success in Representation Elections: Why Does Unit Size Matter?

Farber, Henry S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

I establish four facts regarding the pattern of NLRB supervised representation election activity over the past 45 years: 1) the quantity of election activity has fallen sharply and discontinuously since the mid-70's after increasing between the mid-1950's and the mid-1970's; 2) union success in...

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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

Borghans, Lex; Kriechel, Ben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...

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