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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung; Kueng, Lorenz; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to secure persistently superior performance via...
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Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity
Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
firms and reductions in earnings per worker. Productivity gains arise mainly from an accelerated exit of less productive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095622
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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Chandra, Amitabh; Syverson, Chad; Finkelstein, Amy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … productivity today is associated with about 4 percent more patients in 5 years. Taken together, these facts suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951009
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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
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The Limits to Wage Growth: Measuring the Growth Rate of Wages For Recent Welfare Leavers
Card, David E.; Michalopoulos, Charles; Robins, Philip … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
We study the rate of wage growth among welfare leavers in the Self Sufficiency Program (SSP), an experimental earnings subsidy offered to long-term welfare recipients in Canada. Single parents who started working in response to the SSP incentive are younger, less educated, and have more young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828425
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Social Dumping in the Transformation Process?
Sinn, Hans-Werner - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
Business representatives and union leaders in highly industrialised countries often accuse the governments of less-developed countries of practising social dumping in the sense of deliberately neglecting work-place safety legislation, co-determination rights and other fringe benefits which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828428
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Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005
Moriguchi, Chiaki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Using wage income tax statistics, we construct continuous series of upper wage income shares in Japan from 1951 to 2005 to document the evolution of top wage incomes and investigate their long-run determinants. We find that, while the middle wage income class gained enormously both in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830533
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830939
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Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...
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