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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

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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Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2021

Adam Smith alleged that secret employer collusion to reduce labor earnings is common. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: no-poach agreements through which technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous timing of a US...

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Liberalisation, Concentration and Diversification: Business Groups in India, 2000-2020

Commander, Simon; Estrin, Saul; Thomas, Naveen; … - 2024

We analyse changes in market structure in India between 2000 and 2020 using a rich dataset at high levels of disaggregation. We examine the extent to which business groups – notably family-owned groups – have maintained dominant market positions in the Indian economy. We focus on two key...

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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...

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

de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2020

-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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Comments on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines: A Labor Market Perspective

Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - 2023

The DOJ and FTC clarify the role of labor market power ("monopsony") in the 2023 draft merger guidelines. The draft … that a stricter threshold may be warranted in labor markets. The post-merger Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) that defines … monopsony power in the U.S. may warrant an even lower threshold. For example, merger simulations indicate that workers would …

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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...

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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition: the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2008

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...

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