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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524613
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Product versus process : innovation strategies of multi-product firms
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283837
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270354
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Natural resource endowment : a mixed blessing?
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
This paper deals with the implications of natural resources for the conduct of economic policies and the role and design of institutions in resource-rich countries. The paper briefly reviews the experience of a few resource-rich countries, highlighting the successes of those that have done well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010049
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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009
We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is driven by a hold-up problem caused by lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923683
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Determinants of survival of newly created SMEs in the Brazilian manufacturing : an econometric study
Façanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - 2012
The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490608
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691623
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International R&D spillovers and marginal social returns on R&D
Ogawa, Kazuo; Sterken, Elmer; Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2016
We analyze the impact of international R&D spillovers on recipient countries in terms of social and private returns. We divide the aggregate R&D stock by the business, government and education sectors and examine the impact on Total Factor Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573960
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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data
Klaveren, Chris Van (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630663
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Working from home around the world
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013365385