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In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....
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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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Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction is analytically important. We examine the conditions necessary to make inferences about the time...
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microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms have productive investment opportunities and can enjoy high returns … Sri Lanka, and measuring the increase in profits arising from this exogenous (positive) shock to capital stock. After …
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Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a …
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types and firm profits to rank firms. We use a panel data set that combines social security earnings records for workers in …We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and …
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … profitability, as noted by Freeman and Medoff. Unions are found to tax returns stemming from market power, but industry … intangible capital and from firm-specific advantages. Lower profits and the union tax on asset returns leads to reduced …
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, individual and firms' characteristics, industry wage differentials and endogeneity of profits. Wage-profit elasticity is found to … significantly and positively related to firms' profits-per-employee even when controlling for group effects in the residuals … percent of this gap can be explained by the wage-profits profile and by the fact that women are more likely to be employed in …
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This paper is a practical guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand spillover effects in program evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a field experiment to measure the average effects of...
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