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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy

Raff, Horst - 2011

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...

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Concentration and Market Size : Lower Bound Estimates for the Brazilian Industry

Resende, Marcelo - 2021

The paper estimates the lower bound for market concentration taking as reference the framework advanced by Sutton (1991). Quantile regression methods were considered in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry in 2005 and separate estimates were obtained for exogenous and endogenous...

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Manufacturers Mergers and Product Variety in Vertically Related Markets

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2014

We study final product manufacturers' incentives to introduce new products into the market and how they are affected by a merger among them. We show that when manufacturers distribute their products through multi-product retailers, a manufacturers merger, although it leads to an increase in the...

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Foreign Ownership and the Extensive Margins of Exports : Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2021

, productivity and industry affiliation. These differences between foreign-owned firms and domestically controlled firms are highly …

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2008

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms

Rauch, James E. - 2014

, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a …

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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Industrial Productivity

Segerstrom, Paul Stephen; Sugita, Yoichi - 2021

Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries …

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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries

Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2021

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

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Productivity, Price- and Wage-Markups : An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Manufacturing Industry

Amoroso, Sara - 2015

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 …

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Growing Productivity Without Growing Wages : The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Aggregate Labor Share Decline

Kehrig, Matthias - 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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