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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482634
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466452
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Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries
Griffith, Rachel - 2006
and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a …This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465938
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Intra-household time allocation : gender differences in caring for children
García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2009
characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847151
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor);  … - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387735
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation : theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925275
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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The effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on wage behaviour
Lauer, Charlotte - 1999
This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294707