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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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The Real Side of the Financial Crisis: Banks' Exposure, Flight to Quality and Firms' Investment Rate

Brancati, Emanuele - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2013

The paper takes advantage of the Italian experience in the Lehman crisis to test the effects of banking shocks on the real decisions of client firms. The analysis exploits plant-level data and models the magnitude of the shock with banks' pre-crisis holding of Dollar-denominated assets and...

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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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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam C. van; Thompson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

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Run for Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

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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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