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Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and Private Objectives

Cooper, Russell; Gong, Guan; Yan, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two dimensions. First, it uncovers the objectives of public enterprises and compares them to private enterprises. Second, it estimates adjustment costs of these plants and thus their...

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003

Earle, John; Telegdy, Álmos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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Property Rights and Finance

Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their profits, even when bank loans are available....

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using … and innovation and show that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are also important … channels. There is no evidence for an inverted U relationship between innovation and foreign competition. The relationship …

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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina; Khandelwal, Amit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Recent theoretical work predicts that an important margin of adjustment to deregulation or trade reforms is the reallocation of output within firms through changes in their product mix. Empirical work has accordingly shifted its focus towards multi-product firms and their product mix decisions....

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Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America

Allcott, Hunt; Keniston, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a "Natural Resource Curse," perhaps as Dutch Disease crowds out manufacturing? We combine new data on oil and gas abundance with Census of Manufactures microdata to estimate how oil and gas booms have affected local economies in the...

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Analyzing Compensation Methods in Manufacturing: Piece Rates, Time Rates, or Gain-Sharing?

Helper, Susan; Kleiner, Morris M.; Wang, Yingchun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Economists have often argued that "pay for performance" is the optimal compensation scheme. However, use of the simplest form of pay for performance, the piece rate, has been in decline in manufacturing in recent decades. We show both theoretically and empirically that these changes are due to...

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How Do Energy Prices, and Labor and Environmental Regulations Affect Local Manufacturing Employment Dynamics? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Kahn, Matthew E.; Mansur, Erin T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Manufacturing industries differ with respect to their energy intensity, labor-to-capital ratio and their pollution intensity. Across the United States, there is significant variation in electricity prices and labor and environmental regulation. This paper uses a regression discontinuity approach...

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The Evolving Geography of China's Industrial Production: Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality of Life

Kahn, Matthew E.; Zheng, Siqi; Sun, Cong; Qi, Ye - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this industrialization was spatially concentrated in the coastal eastern cities. Over the last decade, a spatial transformation has taken place leading to a deindustrialization of the...

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The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?

Foster, Lucia Smith; Haltiwanger, John; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

It is well known that new businesses are typically much smaller than their established industry competitors, and that this size gap closes slowly. We show that even in commodity-like product markets, these patterns do not reflect productivity gaps, but rather differences in demand-side...

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