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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652531
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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762185
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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822352
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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734422
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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233855
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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466022
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822674
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763717
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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763866
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549998