This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in asearch model with heterogeneous multiple-worker firms. In our setup, PMR modifies thedistribution of firm productivities, thereby affecting the equilibrium rate of unemployment...

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level,this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market formanufactured goods...<br<

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eightlabour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginalemployment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hoursusing a new panel data set...

In den siebziger und achtziger Jahren erlebte das Zahntechnikerhandwerkeinen starken wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung. Hintergrund war vor allem dieTatsache, dass die Krankenkassen ab Mitte der 70er Jahre die Kosten fürZahnersatz zu 100 Prozent zu tragen hatten. In der westdeutschen...

Im Rahmen dieser Einführung werden jene Umweltfaktoren vorgestellt, die denHintergrund bilden, vor dem sich deutsche Unternehmen bewegen, wenn sie sich mitdem Phänomen E-Commerce auseinandersetzen. Dazu werden in Punkt 1.1wichtige Internet-Größen wie Anzahl der Nutzer, die Anzahl der...

In his oft-cited “What do we know about entry?”, Paul Geroski (1995) gave a survey of empirical works on this central topic regarding industrial organization and, more precisely, market dynamics. Surprisingly, his article remains silent on the spatial dimension of these dynamics. This paper...

Working within the 'distributional approach', this research offers evidence, based on empirical density estimates and modality tests, of past polarization in regional labour productivity in EU-15. Most importantly, it provides evidence on the related ergodic density which suggests that this...

The paper uses a unique dataset comprising the population of new ventures that enter the UK market in 1998. We argue that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our...

Market growth is driven by product innovation. Beyond functional satiationthe marginal utility of product performance and variety decreases. We argue that socialcomparisons underlying innovation diffusion results in consumer motivations for upwardassimilation toward the behavior of better...