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Globalisation, ICT and the nitty gritty of plant level datasets

Martin, Ralf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990s according to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studies have tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...

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Measuring organization capital in Japan: an empirical assessment using firm-level data

Miyagawa, Tsutomu; Kim, YoungGak - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Globalization and the ICT revolution of the 1990s have forced many firms to reorganize in order to survive in a more competitive market. There are several approaches that can be used to assess the measurement of organization capital since it is unobservable. Using an optimizing firm model and...

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How does shared capitalism affect economic performance in the UK?

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper uses nationally representative linked workplace-employee data from the British 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the operation of shared capitalist forms of pay – profit-sharing and group pay for performance, employee share ownership, and stock options—and...

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Minimum wages and firm profitability

Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 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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Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92. We show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output...

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Ownership and managerial competition: employee, customer, or outside ownership

Bolton, Patrick; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers and employees’ incentives to invest in human capital. We argue that employees’ incentives in human capital investment are affected by both ownership and competition since...

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Dynamic voting in clubs

Roberts, Kevin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper examines the process and outcomes of democratic decision-making in clubs where a club is defined by their sets of members whose preferences and decisions relate to the set of members in the club: the electorate to endogenous. Examples range from international organizations like the...

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Culturally clustered or in the cloud? location of internet start-ups in Berlin

Moeller, Kristoffer - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Knowledge based firms like IT companies do neither have a capital- nor a land intensive production. They predominantly rely on qualified labour and increasingly depend on the location of its (potential) employees. This implies that it is more likely that firms follow workers rather than the...

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Homeownerhip and entrepreneurship

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and constructing a detailed monthly-spell dataset that tracks individuals‟ job history and tenure choice, coupled with other time-varying...

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Strategic communication: prices versus quantities

Alonso, Ricardo; Matouschek, Niko; Dessein, Wouter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We examine how cheap talk communication between managers within the same firm depends on the type of decisions that the firm makes. A firm consists of a headquarters and two operating divisions. Headquarters is unbiased but does not know the demand conditions in the divisions' markets. Each...

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