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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275826
Economic literature describes drastic and non-drastic innovations as sources of marginal cost reduction. The difference is that non-drastic innovations are unable to reduce the new marginal cost in order to ensure that the innovator is able to set monopoly price lower than the previous marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015243983
The economic literature has spent decades of analytical effort in order to provide theoretical and empirical evidence on behavior differences between firms managed by capital (conventional capitalist firms) and firms managed by labor (including cooperatives and professional associations), mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015244332
How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526966
The aim of this work is to test the Gibrat's Law hypothesis for Brazilian firms. Gibrat''s Law establishes that firm growth is a random walk, it means that the probability of a given proportionale change in size during a specified period is the same for all firms in a given industry. This work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416937
Economic literature describes drastic and non-drastic innovations as sources of marginal cost reduction. The difference is that non-drastic innovations are unable to reduce the new marginal cost in order to ensure that the innovator is able to set monopoly price lower than the previous marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111402
The economic literature has spent decades of analytical effort in order to provide theoretical and empirical evidence on behavior differences between firms managed by capital (conventional capitalist firms) and firms managed by labor (including cooperatives and professional associations), mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112209
We provide evidence about the determinants of the wage structures of developing countries by examining the case of Brazil. Our specific question is whether Brazil’s dramatic income and wage differentials can be explained by the division of rents between firms and their employees, unlike in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854721
How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763709
Qual o impacto da desigualdade salarial intra-rma sobre o desempenho dos trabalhadores e, consequentemente, sobre o desempenho das empresas? N~ao ha na literatura teorica ou emprica um consenso sobre tal efeito. Uma parte da literatura, focada principalmente sobre o papel dos incentivos,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367798