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The Financial and Operating Performance ofPrivatized Firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

firms. First,accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operatingperformance of … different to private counterparts. Overallresults, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was not as successful as it …

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Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks

Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study how workers’ wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms’ labor productivity.Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed torevenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that thereaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the responseto pure idiosyncratic (firm …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor forceparticipants. We show that education...

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Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure?Evidence from French Matched Employer-EmployeeData

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employeremployeedata for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show thatfamily firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gapis due to differences in...

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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises:An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon

Arando, Saioa; Gago, Monica; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group ofworker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are twodistinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with significant employee ownership andvoice; and (ii) GESPAs...

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Self-Selection into Export Markets byBusiness Services Firms: Evidence fromFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

and productivity hold in the yearsbefore the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Marketwith Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...

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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structuralapproaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wageelasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods.We begin by providing the...

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in thespecial issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the linkage between personality,socio-economic factors...

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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?

Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panelVectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables tounemployment are affected by financial...

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