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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Marczak, Martyna - 2018

We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...

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Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level

Merkl, Christian - 2018

In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow...

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The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers : An Industry Analysis

Edwards, Ryan D. - 2016

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework that allows for multiple industries and a heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and...

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Non-Linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei; Li, Teng - 2021

Using administrative data from a major Chinese insurance firm that raised its sales targets and rewards for insurance agents in a highly non-linear incentive system, we find that the improvement in productivity far outweighed the costs associated with bunching distortions and other gaming...

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Exports, Imports and Profitability : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade …

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …

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Competition and Gender Prejudice : Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Weber, Andrea - 2009

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female …

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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders

Lin, Carl - 2013

The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration …

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Services Outsourcing and Innovation : An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger - 2014

activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as … predicted by theory, while this is not true for domestic sourcing. The results are robust to various specifications and an …

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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena - 2014

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...

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