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Top team diversity and business performance : latent class analysis for firms and cities

Nathan, Max - 2014

A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...

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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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Concentrating on the fall of the labor share

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017

The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...

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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions in an open economy

Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R. - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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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...

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Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency : selection on productivity or profitability?

Foster, Lucia (contributor); … - 2005

There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...

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Trust-based work-time and product improvements : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

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Innovation, firm survival and productivity: the state of the art

Uğur, Mehmet; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

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