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Hoang, Trang; Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang - 2024

This paper examines the impact of an export market expansion created by the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) on competition among manufacturing firms in Vietnam's local labor markets. Using a nonparametric production function approach, we measure distortionary wedges between...

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Job changes, hours changes and the path of labour supply adjustment

Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005

This paper uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. We find evidence of small labour supply effects for two...

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Job changes, hours changes and the path of labour supply adjustment

Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

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Firm market power and the earnings distribution

Webber, Douglas A. - 2013

elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also contrast the dynamic model method employed by this paper with the more … traditional use of concentration ratios to measure a firm's labor market power. Finally, I construct a counterfactual earnings … distribution which allows the effects of firm market power to vary across the earnings distribution. -- monopsony …

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Catching hipo's: screening, wages and unemployment

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Competition And Firm Performance: Lessons From Russia

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The 'big-bang' liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analysing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of...

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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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Firm training

Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...

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The rational of minimum wages

Herr, Hansjörg - 2021

Leaving labour markets to the market mechanism with flexible wages is the worst thing that can happen as the result would be a permanent destabilisation of the price level and an explosion of inequality—both of which adds to the instabilities of capitalism. Guarantee of minimum wages can play...

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The effect of export market access on labor market power : firm-level evidence from Vietnam

Hoang, Trang; Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang - 2024

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