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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …
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Catching up or lagging behind? : the long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019
From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are very effective in improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants. From a business perspective, however, the assessment of these public programs is less clear since they might attract...
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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services
Hempell, Thomas - 2002
In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …
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Threshold values in German labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001
According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...
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Threshold effects of dismissal protection legislation in Germany
Verick, Sher (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Venture capital investment and labor market performance : new empirical evidence for OECD countries
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Schaal, Andreas (contributor) - 2004
models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial … markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany and Japan being possibly inferior to stock-market based financial …
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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation
Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002
The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...
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Job creation by firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...
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