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migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level … administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …
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This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...
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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 …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
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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...
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According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
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unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade …
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other aspects of firm behaviour. In this paper we consider the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability by exploiting … firm profitability was significantly reduced (and wages significantly raised) by the minimum wage introduction. This … residential care homes, and a second on firms across all sectors). Interestingly, we find no evidence that the profitability …
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We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of …
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