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Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level : Sources and Productivity Implications

Cooper, Russell W.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Willis, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies competing sources of declining dynamism. Evidence shows that an important component of this decline is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level dynamic optimization problem as a framework for analysis,...

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Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001

DiNardo, John - 2004

Economic impacts of unionization on employers are difficult to estimate in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. Estimates are also confounded by selection bias, because unions could organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more...

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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs

Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the...

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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

Italian SMEs from the "Survey on Manufacturing Firms" conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period 1995-2003. The …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David - 2015

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? We develop 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, and...

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Does Financing Spur Small Business Productivity? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Krishnan, Karthik - 2014

We analyze how increased access to financing affects firm total factor productivity (TFP) by exploiting a natural experiment following interstate banking deregulations which increased access to bank financing. We find that firms' TFP increases after their states implement these deregulations....

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis - 2013

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

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Achieving Scale Collectively

Bassi, Vittorio; Muoio, Raffaela; Porzio, Tommaso; Sen, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduct a novel survey of …

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