Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. …

costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed cost in hiring immigrants we analyze the impact of an increase in local … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for … dichotomy of 'innovative' versus 'non-innovative' firms commonly used in interpreting CIS data. Secondly, we find that the … degrees of firms' technological capabilities. These findings may be useful to help policy making to meet the priorities …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision …

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … significant positive impacts on productivity as measured by value-added per worker, especially for firms with female principal … average regional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoption improves value-added per …

. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, and draw common lessons from both sets …. Field experiments within firms generally aim to shed light on the nature of agency problems. Along these lines, we discuss …-monetary incentives. Field experiments across firms generally aim to uncover firms' binding constraints by exogenously varying the …

comparison between individuals with and without dependent children before and after the reform. The reform increased benefit … points (25 percent higher than the pre-reform level), mostly for workers employed at small firms. The increase in fiscal …