evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker … costs of ethnic diversity vary with the political environment, and that in high-cost environments firms are forced to adopt …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper … relies on the presence of imperfect competition in the flexible input market, namely, the labor market. …

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

distribution. Entrepreneurs strongly affect firm growth patterns of both very young firms and for firms that have begun to mature …. We do not find significant differences between small and larger firms, family and non-family firms, nor between firms …

Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output …

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …

administers educational loans. Individuals are heterogeneous in their talent for education and ability to learn on the job and … face uninsurable idiosyncratic labour productivity risk during their working career. We calibrate the model to the US …