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Concentration and other wage determinants

Martins, Ana Paula - 2018

This research presents evidence on how the impact of industry concentration and unionism affect the Portuguese wage levels. The influence of employer association is also considered. We use sector information - two-digit level disaggregation of "Classificação das Actividades Económicas" -, and...

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Is There Really an Inverted U-shaped Relation Between Competition and R&D?

Poldahl, Andreas; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2005

We test whether predictions of the Aghion and Howitt (2004) model are supported by firm level data. In particular, we analyze if there is an inverted U-shaped relation between competition and R&D. Results show that the inverted U-shaped relation is supported by the Herfindahl index but not by...

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Size of Training Firms : The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers

Müller, Steffen - 2016

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...

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What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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Information Technology, Firm Size, and Industrial Concentration

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Jin, Wang; Wang, Xiupeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

investment is one of the main driving forces for the increase in firm size, decline of labor share, the growth of superstar firms …

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Patent Holdings of Indian Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies in International Markets of Different Sizes

Sebastian, Teena; Pattnayak, Jyothi; Soby, Sajna; … - 2016

In any assessment of the R&D capabilities of Indian companies, their patent holdings would have to be examined. Here we identify the number of patents assigned by four foreign governments to Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies up to December 31, 2009. It is known that the United...

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Job Creation by Company Size Class : Concentration and Persistence of Job Gains and Losses in Canadian Companies

Picot, Garnett; Dupuy, Richard - 1998

tremendous influence on public policy. Governments have looked to the small firm sector for employment growth and have promoted …, for both the entire Canadian economy and the manufacturing sector, the growth rate of net and gross employment decreases … the magnitude of the difference in the growth rates of small and large firms is very sensitive to the measurement …

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Features and determinants of the firm size distribution : an enpirical analysis with Brazilian data

Foguel, Miguel Nathan; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual - 2023

The Pareto distribution has been used to describe firm sizes in many theoretical models for its convenience and empirical validity. We provide estimates of the Pareto parameters across industries and investigate the determinants of the shape of the firm size distribution in Brazil. The Pareto...

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Determinants of firm R&D: Evidence from Swedish firm level data

Gustavsson, Patrik; Poldahl, Andreas - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2004

In this paper we analyse determinants of firm R&D using matched Swedish employer-employee data spanning the period 1990-1999. We explore if <p> predictions from the model of creative destruction are supported by data. <p> Using various measures of competition, results indicate that competition is...</p></p>

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Distribution and Fluctuation of Firm Size in the Long-Run

Souma, W.; Aoyama, H.; Gruene, L. - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2004

The paper studies empirically and analytically growth and fluctuation of firm size distribution. An empirical analysis … is carried out on several data sets on firm size, with emphasis on one-time distribution as well as growth …

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