Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

54 Pages Posted: 18 May 2013 Last revised: 29 Jan 2023

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Sabien Dobbelaere

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Department of Economics; Tinbergen Institute; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Kozo Kiyota

Keio University - Keio Economic Observatory

Jacques Mairesse

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST); Maastricht University - United Nations and Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: May 2013

Abstract

Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on two extensions of Hallʼs econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of 17,653 firms over the period 1986-2001 in France, 8,728 firms over the period 1994-2006 in Japan and 7,828 firms over the period 1993-2008 in the Netherlands, we first apply two procedures to classify 30 comparable manufacturing industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in terms of the type of competition prevailing in product and labor markets. For each of the predominant regimes in each country, we then investigate industry differences in the estimated product and labor market imperfections and scale economies. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the three countries, we find important regime differences across the three countries and also observe differences in the levels of product market imperfections and scale economies within regimes.

Suggested Citation

Dobbelaere, Sabien and Kiyota, Kozo and Mairesse, Jacques, Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands (May 2013). NBER Working Paper No. w19059, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2266805

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