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Occupational licensing and job mobility in the United States
Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2019
empirical analysis exploits variation in licensing regulation across states and industries and constructs indicators for both … the share of employment subject to licensing (the extensive margin) and the strictness of regulation (the intensive margin … with more extensive and stricter licensing regulation. The results from the analysis of earnings are generally mixed and …
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Anti-competitive and regulatory barriers in the United States labour market
Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2020
Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United … States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality … of services, it also creates entry barriers and reduces competition with important costs for job mobility, earnings and …
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Public policy and resource allocation : evidence from firms in OECD countries
Andrews, Dan; Cingano, Federico - 2012
The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we examine the extent to which regulations affecting...
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The effects of cross-border acquisitions on firms' productivity in the EU
Gregori, Wildmer Daniel; Cillero, Maria Martinez; … - 2021 - This version: June 2021
acquired firms, especially in the manufacturing and services sectors, as well as in less knowledge intensive activities. Firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550000
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Like it or not? : the impact of online platforms on the productivity of incumbent service providers
Bailin Rivares, Alberto; Gál, Peter; Millot, Valentine; … - 2019
This paper uses a novel empirical approach to assess if the development of online platforms affects the productivity of service firms. We build a proxy measure of platform use across four industries (hotels, restaurants, taxis and retail trade) and ten OECD countries using internet search data...
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Recent trends in productivity in China : shift-share analysis of labour productivity growth and the evolution of the productivity gap
Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas - 2015
The Chinese economy has been undergoing fundamental structural changes since the start of reforms in 1978. An increasing number of farmers first got engaged in off-farm activities and then started to migrate to cities in the 1990s in search of jobs. Such movement of labour from less to more...
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Patterns of firm level productivity in Ireland
Papa, Javier; Rehill, Luke; O'Connor, Brendan - 2018
Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout the 2000s. Little research has been carried out as...
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Boosting productivity in Finland
André, Christophe; Chalaux, Thomas - 2016
Boosting productivity growth is necessary to raise living standards and well-being for all. Aggregate productivity has fallen, mainly driven by manufacturing, although service industries have also tended to underperform. Reviving productivity requires improving framework conditions further so...
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Estimation of service sector mark-ups determined by structural reform indicators
Thum-Thysen, Anna; Canton, Erik - 2015
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