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Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium

Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms’ performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...

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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...

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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector

Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other “research” activities, such as software. Second, argument still...

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Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?

Aziz, Mehnaz; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Jimenez, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level … elusive. The inability of successive governments to reform the system has created severe constraints for Pakistan's economic … education. We discuss in this paper the imperative for education system reform in Pakistan, and articulate why a window of …

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Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan

Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …

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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan

Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...

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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Bruno, Randolph Luca; Cipollina, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there...

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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...

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More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Kumbhakar, Subal C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives us within-country distributions of these effects and...

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Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

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