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Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation

Haelbig, Mirja; Mertens, Matthias; Müller, Steffen - 2023

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

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Declining business dynamism in Europe : the role of shocks, market power, and technology

Biondi, Filippo; Inferrera, Sergio; Mertens, Matthias; … - 2023 - This version: September 19, 2023

productivity. However, the dispersion of firms' productivity shocks has decreased too. To enhance our understanding of these … patterns, we derive a firm-level framework that relates changes in firms' productivity, market power, and technology to job …

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How to Move Product Market Regulation in New Zealand Back Towards the Frontier

Conway, Paul - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

From the mid-1980s, New Zealand was widely considered to be a leader in liberalising product market regulation (PMR). However, the reform of PMR has lost momentum over recent years. Many areas of PMR are still consistent with best practice, but New Zealand is no longer assessed to be at the...

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Micro-based evidence of EU competitiveness : the CompNet database

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The micro-economics of export supply: Firm-level evidence from Mexico

Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019

This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...

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Moving Towards a More Dynamic Business Sector in Spain

Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened. Boosting economic growth requires a new generation...

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Automation, Performance and International Competition: Firm-level Comparisons of Process Innovation

Kromann, Lene; Sørensen, Anders - 2015

productivity growth than other firms. Moreover, automation improves the efficiency of all stages of the production process by …

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Market Power, Total Factor Productivity Growth, and Structural Change. An Illustration for Spain, 1983-1996.

Siotis, G. - 2000

This paper analyses the evolution of total factor productivity growth and market power in Spain during the period 1983 …

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Market Power, Total Factor Productivity Growth, and Structural Change. An Illustration for Spain, 1983-1996

Siotis, Georges - Banco de España - 2000

This paper analyses the evolution of total factor productivity growth and market power in Spain during the period 1983 …

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A Price Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration under Productivity Heterogeneity

Dam, Kaniska - 2020

monotone, i.e., high-productivity enterprises integrate while the low-productivity ones stay separate. Product market price can …

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