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Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation

Commander, Simon; Estrin, Saul; De Silva, Thamashi - 2023

non-affiliates, this is unsurprising given their access to additional resources. However, when we look at innovation at … the country level, we find that the wider consequences of BGs on innovation may be negative. …

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Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Dostie, Benoît - 2014

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

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Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

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Training, Worker Mobility, and Employer Coordination

Martins, Pedro S.; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2022

This paper presents a new model of firms' decisions on training in a context of potential worker mobility. Such worker mobility can be influenced by employers coordination, namely through the operation of no-poach agreements and employers' associations (EAs). We then present supporting evidence...

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Labor Market Concentration and Competition Policy across the Atlantic

Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew; … - 2022

Drawing upon data from the largest cross-country study of labor market concentration to date, this paper analyzes the level of concentration of labor input markets in Europe and North America and provides a comparative perspective on employers' monopsony power. It explores the characteristics of...

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Non-compete Agreements in a Rigid Labour Market: The Case of Italy

Boeri, Tito; Garnero, Andrea; Luisetto, Lorenzo Giovanni - 2023

Non-compete clauses (NCCs) limiting the mobility of workers have been found to be rather widespread in the US, a flexible labour market with large turnover rates and a limited coverage of collective bargaining. This paper explores the presence of such arrangements in a rigid labour market, with...

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The Wage Effects of Employers' Associations: A Case Study of the Private Schools Sector

Martins, Pedro S. - 2023

Does employers' association (EA) membership affect wages? Such effects, positive or negative, could follow from increased productivity, employer collusion, or other channels. We analyse this question drawing on matched employer-employee panel data, including time-varying EA affiliation and...

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Labor Market Concentration

Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana E.; Steinbaum, Marshall - 2017

A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...

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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Marinescu, Ioana E.; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020

How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...

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