Similar Search Results

Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany

Bond, Stephen; Harhoff, Dietmar; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994. For German firms, cash flow is not informative in simple econometric models of fixed investment or R&D. In identical specifications for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884496

Co-ordination failure and the role of banks in the resolution of financial distress

Pagratis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This article discusses the out-of-court restructuring of the contractual obligations of a financially distressed firm, under conditions of asymmetric information among the firm’s creditors and in situations where a creditor bank makes concessions conditional on other creditors’ actions. I...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745518

TRADE UNIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: THE BRITISH EVIDENCE

METCALF, D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1988

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776289

The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744907

Impact of work experience and training in the current and previous occupations on earnings: micro evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

In the empirical literature on work experience, job tenure, training and earnings, only one previous study has made a … training and vocational institute training for the current occupation have highly significant effects on earnings, with work … significantly negative effect on the earnings of those with high cognitive test scores, the previous-occupation counterparts do not …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745878

Numeracy, literacy and earnings: evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

The analysis is concerned with the contributions of numeracy and literacy to earnings, for three reasons: first, no … the contributions of numeracy and literacy as reflected in earnings. The results suggest that numeracy has a highly … significant effect on earnings, mostly through its effect on college attainment, but also directly, controlling for attainment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746026

Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125986

Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes: the case of creatine

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Hakulinen, Christian; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

I evaluate the impact of the UK Working Time Regulations 1998, which introduced mandatory paid holiday entitlement. The regulation gave (nearly) all workers the right to a minimum of 4 weeks of paid holiday per a year. With constant weekly pay this change amounts effectively to an increase in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126550

It’s where you work: increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126610

The value of insolvency safe harbours

Paech, Philipp - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

‘Safe harbour’ is shorthand for a bundle of privileges in insolvency which are typically afforded to financial … protection against the fallout of the counterparty’s insolvency contributes to systemic stability, as the feared ‘domino effect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264787