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Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271801
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Competition in the Portuguese economy: insights from a profit elasticity approach
Amador, João; Soares, Ana Cristina - 2013
This article segments the Portuguese economy into fairly disaggregated markets and estimates a new competition measure suggested by Boone (2008), which draws on the concept of profit elasticity to marginal costs. In addition, robustness of results across econometric specifications is discussed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605648
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Competition in the Portuguese economy: estimated price-cost margins under imperfect labour markets
Amador, João; Soares, Ana Cristina - 2014
This article estimates price-cost margins for the Portuguese markets in a context of imperfect competition in the labour market. The database used includes virtually the universe of Portuguese firms for the period 2005-2009. The results strongly reject the hypothesis of perfect competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605796
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The effect of bank shocks on firm-level and aggregate investment
Amador, João; Nagengast, Arne J. - 2016
We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the period 2005 to 2013. We argue that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605959
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The effect of bank shocks on firm-level and aggregate investment
Amador, João; Nagengast, Arne J. - 2016
We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the period 2005 to 2013. We argue that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497725
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Does formality improve micro-firm performance? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES program
Fajnzylber, Pablo; Maloney, William F.; Montes-Rojas, … - 2009
This paper employs regression discontinuity methods to identify the effect of formality on Brazilian micro-firm performance. The SIMPLES program introduced in November 1996 consolidated multiple taxes and social security contributions into a single payment and reduced taxes for eligible small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269564
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606239
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The impact of structural and macroeconomic factors on regional productivity
D'Costa, Sabine; Garcilazo, Enrique; Martins, Joaquim … - 2012
might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340852
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Stabilization policies and structural developments: Poland and the crises of 1929 and 2008
Polański, Zbigniew - 2017
This paper contrasts the impact of the 1929 and 2008 world crises on the Polish economy. Her much better performance during the recent crisis can be explained by two groups of factors: first, by very different stabilization policies and second, by distinct structural developments (resulting both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056991
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The Danish labor market, 2000-2018
Andersen, Torben M. - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
Denmark is often highlighted as a “flexicurity” country characterized by lax employment protection legislation, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the wake of the Great Recession, high job turnover and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269611