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The impact of WTO accession on Chinese firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2019
evidence of trade shocks on product and labor market power, we use China's WTO accession in 2001 as an identification strategy …
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Market Knowledge: Evidence from Importers
Erbahar, Aksel - 2017
down productivity channels with firm-year fixed effects, I find that having a supplier in the destination country raises …
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Two Worlds Apart? Export Demand Shocks and Domestic Sales
Erbahar, Aksel A. - 2018
Traditional heterogeneous firms and trade models predict no causal relationship between firms' exports and domestic sales. This paper, using a rich dataset on Turkish firms for the 2005-14 period, analyzes the relationship between firm-product sales in different markets for the first time in the...
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Multimarket linkages, buyer power, and the productivity puzzle
Matsushima, Noriaki; Zhao, Laixun - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between firms' productivity improvement and the volume of exports, and shows that …) and multimarket linkages (i.e., horizontally). We find that an improvement of the manufacturing productivity affects the … look surprising. This result can explain for the empirical productivity puzzle found in Ghemawat et al. (2010). Related to …
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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998
factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the announcement of the reform …
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A microeconomic analysis of the declining labor share in Japan
Fukao, Kyoji; Ito, Koji; Perugini, Cristiano - 2019
The labor share in Japan has been declining significantly over the last three decades, accompanied by persistent stagnation and an unprecedented increase in economic inequalities. Since these dynamics are likely to be interrelated, understanding the drivers of the labor share might contribute...
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Finding the cost of control
Kessler, Judd; Leider, Stephen G. - 2013
A large and growing literature has demonstrated that explicit incentives, such as enforceable contracts, can lead agents to withhold effort. We investigate when this behavioral result arises. In an extensive laboratory experiment, we find that imposing control through an enforceable contract is...
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
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Dynamic multilateral markets
Polanski, Arnold; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - 2011
We study dynamic multilateral markets, in which players' payoffs result from coalitional bargaining. In this setting, we establish payoff uniqueness of the stationary equilibria when players exhibit some degree of impatience. We focus on market games with different player types, and derive under...
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FDZ data description: "Survey on marginally employed workers and their employers (MinijobsNRW)"
Hörnig, Lukas; Schaffner, Sandra - 2020
Marginal employment, so-called Minijobs, represent a significant part of the dependent employment in Germany. In 20121 and 2016 the RWI conducted a survey and interviewed marginally employed workers and employers with marginally employed workers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The results of the...
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