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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie; de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a “hard” physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
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Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566707
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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 …' 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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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...
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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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Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
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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Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper, we provide an industry-level analysis of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in Denmark over the last two decades. The analysis shows that SBTC has varied considerably across industries, and traditionally large Danish industries have experienced relatively less SBTC. This may...
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Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and plant exit in Chile. We investigate three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does...
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