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We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage combining administrative firm datasets. We analyze … reallocation, and short- versus long-run effects. We document higher firm productivity even net of output price increases …. Productivity gains are persistent in manufacturing and service sectors. The minimum wage also increased manufacturing productivity …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281094
reallocation. A distinct literature describes a slowdown in the pace of aggregate labor productivity growth. We relate these … patterns by studying changes in productivity growth from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s using firm-level data. We find that … diminished allocative efficiency gains can account for the productivity slowdown in a manner that interacts with the within …
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response to negative rm productivity shocks, workers close to the wage oors experience higher job separations but no wage loss …
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economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic framework to show … procedure will tend to overestimate exporting markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we provide an …-porter productivity …
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financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …
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We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage combining administrative firm datasets. We analyze … reallocation, and short- versus long-run effects. We document higher firm productivity even net of output price increases …. Productivity gains are persistent in manufacturing and service sectors. The minimum wage also increased manufacturing productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517481
productivity. Low productivity firm's optimal choice of employment and wage will be unaffected by the introduction of the minimum … wage. High productivity firms comply so that wage and employment effects are non-negative for these firms. …
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-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377063