Journal Article
Competing takes hard work
Brock, William A. (1986-01)
Economic Review , Issue Jan , Pages 6-10

Journal Article
Corporate export policies provide the competitive edge
Topol, Stanley (1986-01)
Economic Review , Issue Jan , Pages 24-26

Working Paper
Undocumented worker employment and firm survivability
Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Brown, J. David; Hotchkiss, Julie L. (2008)
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being more likely to employ undocumented workers if competitors do. Rivals' undocumented employment harms firms' ability to survive while firms' own undocumented employment strongly enhances their survival prospects. This finding suggests that firms enjoy cost savings from employing lower-paid undocumented at ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2008-28