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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013
monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins …
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Market imperfections, skills and total factor productivity: Firm-level evidence on Belgium and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Vancauteren, Mark - 2014
This paper revisits the relationship between competition and total factor productivity by analyzing how the type and the degree of product and labor market imperfections affect different moments of total factor productivity distributions. Following the methodology developed in Dobbelaere and...
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Does Trade Protection Improve Firm Productivity? Evidence from Philippine Micro Data
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2010
The recent trade and productivity literature shows that trade liberalization can lead to productivity gains through increased competition and exit of inefficient firms and reallocation of market shares in favor of more efficient firms. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the impact of...
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Surviving Trade Liberalization in Philippine Manufacturing
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2012
Firm entry and exit play a crucial role in spurring a reallocation of resources across firms as tariffs are reduced. In the light of the substantial trade reforms implemented in the Philippines over the last two decades, the paper examines the impact of trade reforms on the exit of domestic...
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The effect of trade and FDI on inter-industry wage differentials: The case of Mexico
López Noria, Gabriela - 2011
Taking advantage of the liberalization process under NAFTA, this paper assesses the relative importance of the degree of trade openness and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in explaining inter-industry wage differentials for the case of Mexico. Using INEGI's National Survey of Urban Employment...
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Selection wages and discrimination
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2009
Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...
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Selection wages and discrimination
Schlicht, Ekkehart - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-6, pp. 1-30
Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard, thereby improving the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299945
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Optimal Procurement Auction for a Buyer with Downward Sloping Demand: More Simple Economics
Burguet, Roberto - 2004
A buyer with downward slopping demand faces a number of unit supply sellers. The paper characterizes optimal auctions in this setting. For the symmetric case, a uniform auction (with price equal to lowest rejected offer) is optimal when complemented with reserve prices for different quantities...
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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt II
Sell, Friedrich L.; Ruf, Ernst K. - 2014
Mindestlöhne im nicht diskriminierenden Monopson auf Beschäftigung bzw. Kapitalintensität auswirken. Dabei kann der Mindestlohn in … exakte Lösung für das Monopson. In der Regel lassen sich aber die Lösungsbedingungen nur implizit und über geeignete … Kapitalintensität höher ausfällt als diejenige, die er im unreglementierten Monopson wählt. Schließlich wird in einer …
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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? : Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets
Schumacher, Edward J.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004
The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of ?classic? monopsony, while a ?new …? monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from … several sources, we explore the relationship between wages and measures of classic and new monopsony. Micro wage data for 1993 …
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