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vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2002

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Firm size and export performance: some empirical evidence

Gabbitas, Owen; Gretton, Paul - EconWPA - 2003

This paper uses firm level data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Business Longitudinal Survey to help fill the information gap about the characteristics of successful exporters. This study suggests that the main influences on export performance of Australian manufacturing...

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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms:Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

Three dimensions of the performance of firms in Ghana’s manufacturing sector are investigated in this paper: their technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are...

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Does firm size really affect earnings?

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper we investigate the implications of labour and capital market imperfections for the relationship between firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect cannot be explained by either the observed or unobserved...

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Stock Valuation and Investment Strategies

Chen, Zhiwu; Dong, Ming - EconWPA - 2004

This article studies the relative investment performance of several stock-valuation measures. The first is mispricing based on the valuation model developed by Bakshe and Chen (1998)and extended by Dong (1998) (hereafter, the BCD model). The BCD model relates, in closed form, a stock's fair...

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Why Are There Explicit Contracts of Employment?

James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …

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Is corporatism feasible?

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...

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What ever happened to Germany? Is the decline of the former European key currency country caused by structural sclerosis or by macroeconomic mismanagement?

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - EconWPA - 2005

employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …

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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom

Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … positive relationship between the level of study and the probability of later employment. Although the differences in subject … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …

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The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia

Laplange, Patrick; Glover, Maurice; Fry, Tim - EconWPA - 2005

This Productivity Commission staff working paper, The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia, was released in … examine developments in employment relationships and the implications of these developments for the labour force and the … employment contribute to the Australian economy. This paper examines how the rapid growth of labour hire employment can be …

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