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Effect of international activity on firm performance
Wagner, Joachim - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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Effect of international activity on firm performance
Wagner, Joachim - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269597
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Environmental regulations and labor markets
Deschenes, Olivier - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and intensive in labor. The limited empirical evidence suggests that the …
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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes
Syverson, Chad - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings
Earle, John S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity?
Hübler, Olaf - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
The German model of co-determination (Mitbestimmung) with works councils, in which workers are involved in the management of a company, was a role model for other countries for many years. However, since the 1990s the appeal of works councils has been declining, to the extent that now even...
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Environmental regulations and labor markets
Deschenes, Olivier - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and intensive in labor and energy. Growing empirical evidence suggests that …
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings
Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120550
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Incentivizing sleep?
Costa-Font, Joan - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)
Spending time sleeping not only improves individuals' well-being, but it can influence employment outcomes and … sleep on employee fatigue and cognitive performance, and the associated effects on employment disruption and productivity … loss. Sleep can be influenced by "sleep friendly" employment regulations, technology nudges, monetary incentives, and …
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