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Effects of innovation on employment: a dynamic panel analysis
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - 2007
This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can … distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic …
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Technological regimes in the Brazilian manufacturing industry: An empirical investigation
Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - 2013
The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000-2005 period. The industries were classified in terms of SM-I and SM-II technological regimes by means of multivariate statistical methods based on variable approximating...
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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - 2013
This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...
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The Competitive Effects of Declining Entry Costs over Time: Evidence from the Static Random Access Memory Market
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph - 2020
We focus on the estimation of market entry costs that are declining over time and evaluate their impact on competition and market performance. We employ a dynamic oligopoly model in which firms make entry, exit, and production decisions in the presence of declining entry costs and learning by...
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Do as Essay, Not as I Do? How Inflated List Prices of Unsold Essayer Homes Affect the Price Discovery Process
Agarwal, Sumit; Seiler, Michael J.; Siebert, Ralph - 2022
In the U.S. real estate market, around 30 percent of listed properties remain unsold. We examine whether unsold property listings exert externalities in the housing market. Our study builds on a comprehensive dataset that encompasses residential property listings in Orange County (California)...
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The Impact of Foreclosure on Housing Prices
Siebert, Ralph - 2015
The aim of the study is to explain if the foreclosure effect on prices is explained by a lower quality of foreclosed houses, which is a crucial aspect in the intelligibility of foreclosures. Based on a novel and comprehensive dataset, we estimate the impact of foreclosure on home prices in...
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Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...
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Import Competition and U.S. Sentiment Toward China
Arezki, Rabah; Le, Duong Trung; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Hieu - 2024
We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to...
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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008 - 09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
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