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Compared to developed countries, an unusually large number of small, unproductive firms coexist with a small number of large, productive firms.
If the small, unproductive firms closed down and the larger, more productive firms hired their workers, total output and well-being would rise.
This should happen automatically through the invisible hand of competition, because the more productive firms should be able to deliver a better product at a lower price, while luring workers with higher wages.
Why do the inefficient firms survive, trapping resources in low-productivity activities?
For some, the problem is that government regulations make compliance too onerous for small firms.
Others claim that tax evasion creates an unfair advantage for informal firms, or that family-wide health care gives households no incentive to have more than one member pay social-security taxes.
To bring these skills together, people have to be integrated into cooperative arrangements in the same firm or within clusters of related firms.
The informal sector is mostly a consequence of the fact that people are disconnected from modern production networks – an inefficiency that will not be resolved simply by reducing the cost of registering a business or forcing small firms to pay taxes.
In a recent survey of 384 firms in the eurozone by the management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, two-thirds of the respondents said that they had reshored some activities during the past year, and 50% plan to do so in the next.
According to research by the economists Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman, half of this decline is the result of cheaper information technology, which has enabled firms to replace workers with computers.
The financial-reform law passed by the United States Congress last month requires improved transparency from banks and other financial-services firms.
A number of dynamic emerging-market firms are on a path toward dominating their industrial sectors globally in the coming years – much in the same way that companies based in advanced economies have done for the past half-century.
In the years ahead, such firms are likely to press for economic reforms at home, serving as a force for increased integration of their home countries into global trade and finance.
Otherwise, their firms would have been able to tap the trillions of dollars now sitting on the sidelines, held by sovereign wealth funds, private equity groups, hedge funds, and others.
True, the Treasury will take equity stakes in some firms, so there is some upside potential.
The trade balance is seen as a country’s “bottom line,” as if countries were firms.
But if all firms cut wages simultaneously, the resulting weakness of overall demand undermines companies’ incentives to invest, in turn depressing productivity growth.
South Korea is China’s fourth-largest trading partner, providing key intermediate inputs on which many Chinese firms rely.
The point is not to prop up dying industries, but to increase the birth rate and reduce the infant-mortality rate of firms in industries that can take their place, especially those that can sell to “outsiders,” reconnecting each location with external and increasingly global markets.
In the United States, the Labor Department reports that in 2003, 14% of US workers in firms with 100 or more employees were offered stock options.
But making it difficult for firms to lay off workers provides only an illusory benefit for workers, for it compromises companies’ ability to compete, and weakens their incentive to create jobs.
Chocolate’s Sustainability ChallengeHERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA – In the 1970s and 1980s, when multinational firms first linked sustainability to business success, the chief catalyst was vulnerability, not altruism.
And it paid tribute to the ability of US markets and financial firms to create innovative instruments to “attract and sustain high levels of capital inflows.”
The most serious structural flaws concern high payroll taxes and labor-market regulation, which make it difficult – or at least prohibitively expensive – for firms to reduce their workforce when business conditions worsen.
Firms and individuals need the prospect of higher incomes to save, invest, work hard, and innovate.
If taxation of profitable firms and rich households blunts those prospects, the result is reduced effort and lower economic growth.
It may also need to think more about support for small and medium-size firms that continue to face structurally clogged credit pipes.
Thus, even rapidly rising energy prices imply only a limited additional cost burden for firms.
On May 15, two small independent energy companies (Turkey’s Genel Enerji and Canada’s Addax Petroleum) became the latest foreign firms to begin drilling in Kurdish-controlled territory under an agreement with the regional government.
That makes China an important market opportunity for a broad range of foreign firms – including car producers, technology suppliers, financial institutions, energy companies, and agricultural exporters.
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