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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
van Reenen, John; Garicano, Luis; LeLarge, Claire - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our … framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …. With flexible wages, the deadweight loss of the regulation is below 1% of GDP, but when wages are downwardly rigid welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618284
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R&D and the Incentives from Merger and Acquisition Activity
Phillips, Gordon M.; Zhdanov, Alexei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
. Large firms may find it disadvantageous to engage in an "R&D race" with small firms, as they can obtain access to innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785637
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Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M.; Park, Kyoung Won - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727871
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Mortgage Broker Regulations That Matter: Analyzing Earnings, Employment, and Outcomes for Consumers
Kleiner, Morris M.; Todd, Richard M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
consumer market for mortgages. We find that one typical regulation--the requirement in many states that mortgage brokers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720397
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies
Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764664
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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross; Beck, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084876
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Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope
Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms have lower values of Tobin%u2019s Q than small firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828874
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An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel; Kramarz, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities … participation; (3) average sales in France rise very systematically with selling to less popular markets and to more markets. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830348
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross; Beck, Thorsten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830798
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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes
Helper, Susan; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational producer of automotive sensors and actuators. We examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774713