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Females’ Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females’ willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
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Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700948
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...
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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...
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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
capability (innovate) by upgrading their technology or their product/service (improving quality or developing a new one), taking …
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
mostly insignificant but positive for older firms and firms in the service sector; d) forward spillovers (from purchasing … from foreign firms or importing) are also positive only for old and service sector firms. We find no support for the … manufacturing and backward spillovers among old firms; ii) whereas firms with a larger share of university educated workforce are …
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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices
Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
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The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries
Picard, Pierre M.; Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...
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