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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data

Haskel, Jonathan - 2012

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...

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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization

Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nick; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - 2021

We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over 1995-1999. For the within-shop link - holding constant the shop's permanent characteristics - we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover...

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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments

Roux, Nicolás de; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2021

-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs … quality and variety choices may bias standard estimators. Using real exchange rates and variation in the "bite" of the … firms' quality and variety choices, this method yields consistent estimates, free of the quality and variety biases we have …

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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Marinescu, Ioana - 2020

.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …

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Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2022

Adam Smith alleged that employers sometimes secretly collude to reduce labor earnings. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: illegal no-poaching agreements through which information-technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly...

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Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment : Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido - 2016

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...

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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization

Siebert, William S.; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2021

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...

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Corporate Training and Skill Gaps : Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022

European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over the last six years examining trends, factors supporting...

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The Shift to Remote Work Lessens Wage-Growth Pressures

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2022

The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity-value gains with employers, wage-growth pressures moderate. We find empirical support for this mechanism in the wage-setting behavior of U.S. employers, and we develop novel...

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