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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role … models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial …

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The Macroeconomics of Labor and Credit Market Imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by microeconomic frictions and impacted upon by macroeconomic factors such as monetary policy, could also be to blame. This paper shows that labor and credit market...

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Suitability of Microfinance as an Investment Option

Janda, Karel; Svarovska, Barbora - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2012

This paper investigates investment performance of the most commercially developed microfinance investment funds and it … between microfinance funds' returns and the performance of stock and fixed income markets in developed and emerging economies …

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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms’ innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation,...

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Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises

Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...

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On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions

Bachan, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in non-leadership, non-high-level...

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