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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate … wage. In the western part of the country minimum wages had no impact on competition. …

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The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

Cheelo, Caesar; Liebenthal, Robert - 2018

The construction sector plays a critical role in delivering quality infrastructure, which in turn influences the use of natural resource revenues towards achieving structural change and industrial development. We use industrial organization and political economy lenses to describe and understand...

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Does Regulation Trade-Off Quality against Inequality? The Case of German Architects and Construction Engineers

Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2018

We exploit an exogenous price increase by about 10% for architectural services to answer the question how rice regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years 2006 to 2012, we find a significant reform effect of 8%...

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Does regulation trade-off quality against inequality? The case of German architects and construction engineers

Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2018

We exploit an exogenous price increase by about 10% for architectural services to answer the question how price regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years 2006 to 2012, we find a significant reform effect of 8%...

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Testing the superstar firm hypothesis

Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2020

The superstar firms model provides a compelling explanation for two simultaneously occurring phenomena: the rise of concentration in industries and the fall of labor shares. Our empirical analysis confirms two of the underlying assumptions of the model: the market share increases and the labor...

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Labor Responses, Regulation and Business Churn

Aloi, Marta; Dixon, Huw D.; Savagar, Anthony - 2018

We develop a model of sluggish firm entry to explain short-run labor responses to technology shocks. We show that the labor response to technology and its persistence depend on the degree of returns to labor and the rate of firm entry. Existing empirical results support our theory based on...

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Highway to economic growth? Competition in public works tenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario; Redonda, Agustin - 2012

an essential part to bring the country on the path of economic growth, and competition within the sector is crucial to … achieve this goal. In this paper we analyze the effect of competition in public works tenders in the DRC. Using a unique and …

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The Quality of Cultural Services in the Global Economic Crisis Context

Dvoracic, Aurica - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 3, pp. 688-699

website of the Ministry of Culture – to conclude that quality policies are missing. In fact, these are not the only policies … far as culture is concerned at the beginning of the new millennium, in the particular context of the global economic …

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Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach

Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …

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Heterogeneous Innovations and Growth Under Imperfect Technology Spillovers

Jo, Karam; Kim, Seula - 2024

We study how frictions in learning others' technology, termed "imperfect technology spillovers," impact firm innovation strategies and the aggregate economy through changes in innovation composition. We develop an endogenous growth model that generates strategic innovation decisions, where...

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