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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting …-tech sector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assets appears vital for the productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497587
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822639
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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233812
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763855
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Revealed Informal Activity
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
expenditure surveys. We apply this method to the case of Bulgaria using LSMS income and expenditure surveys before and after a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922973
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External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147299
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323097
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Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms
Maré, Dave C.; Sanderson, Lynda; Fabling, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors (eg, differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959825
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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233745