Technological hierarchies and learning: Spillovers, complexity, relatedness, and the moderating role of absorptive capacity

N Chatzistamoulou, K Kounetas, K Tsekouras - … Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
We develop a theoretical framework, which facilitates the investigation of spillover effects on
productive performance under the lens of path dependence, technological relatedness, and …

Imports and labour market imperfections: Firm-level evidence from France

M Caselli, L Nesta, S Schiavo - European Economic Review, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines the presence of labour market imperfections in France, that lead to
market power on the side of either firms or their workforce, and investigates the role of import …

Minimum wage effects across heterogeneous markets

H Okudaira, M Takizawa, K Yamanouchi - Labour Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Previous studies have reached little consensus on the employment effect of the minimum
wage. This paper argues that local labor markets are heterogeneous, in that the impact of …

Productive performance, technology heterogeneity and hierarchies: Who to compare with whom

K Tsekouras, N Chatzistamoulou, K Kounetas - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper we argue that inappropriate handling of technological heterogeneity distorts the
benchmarking process eroding performance scores. Country-and industry-specific frontier …

Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters

S Dobbelaere, K Kiyota - Labour Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines the links between a firm's internationalization status and the type and
degree of market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for …

Labor market power and the distorting effects of international trade

M Mertens - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020 - Elsevier
This article examines how final product trade with China shapes and interacts with labor
market imperfections that create market power in labor markets and prevent an efficient …

The China syndrome: A cross‐country evidence

K Kiyota, S Maruyama, M Taniguchi - The World Economy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While in many advanced countries the increasing import competition from China on
employment is a major concern for policymakers and the general public, its impact of …

[PDF][PDF] Wage and markdowns and FDI liberalization

Y Lu, Y Sugita, L Zhu - 2019 - hias.hit-u.ac.jp
This paper examines whether foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization reduces firms'
monopsony power in labor markets. We estimate firm-level wage markdown, wage over …

International productivity gaps and the export status of firms: Evidence from France and Japan

F Bellone, K Kiyota, T Matsuura, P Musso… - European Economic …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper provides new evidence on international productivity gaps; this evidence is
obtained from large-scale firm-level data from the French and Japanese manufacturing …

Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from two different econometric models

S Dobbelaere, J Mairesse - Labour Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The extent to which employers share rents with their employees is typically assessed by
estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay. This paper …