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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nick - 2006
US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …
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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Cai, Jing - 2016
We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a "no- meetings" control group....
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The Big Tech Lending Model
Liu, Lei; Lu, Guangli; Xiong, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
By comparing uncollateralized business loans made by a big tech lending program with conventional bank loans, we find that big tech loans tend to be smaller and have higher interest rates and that borrowers of big tech loans tend to repay far before maturity and borrow more frequently. These...
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …
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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics
Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
.S transit agencies with transit agencies in Germany and the United Kingdom. We study U.S urban public sector energy efficiency …
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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …
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Educational Inequality*
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements …
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The Impact of Pollution Abatement Investment on Productivity Change : AnEmpirical Comparison of the U.S., Germany, and Canada
Conrad, Klaus - 1985
and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our …
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