from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … Immigrants. Following the “epidemiological approach”, we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We … use two different measures to identify the gender composition of the top layer based on direct survey data: the fraction …

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 …