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We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic …
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The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
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labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …’s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms’ export activities …
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measure of establishment labour productivity. In addition, the implications of training for the firm’s bottom line are … labour productivity outcome and, in the case of the earlier survey, for the financial performance indicator as well. However …
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measured by absence, turnover and labour productivity. Work-related psychological illness is found to be negatively associated …
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This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage …-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment process of productivity, empirical results reveal the existence of a … positive impact from conditional intra-firm wage dispersion to firm productivity (measured by the average value added per hour …
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