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Give me your wired and your highly skilled : measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2011
The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308050
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Say pays! : shareholder voice and firm performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414206
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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;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039650
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Exponent of cross-sectional dependence : estimation and inference
Bailey, Natalia; Kapetanios, George; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012
An important issue in the analysis of cross-sectional dependence which has received renewed interest in the past few years is the need for a better understanding of the extent and nature of such cross dependencies. In this paper we focus on measures of cross-sectional dependence and how such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530816
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Wealth shocks and health outcomes : evidence from stock market fluctuations
Schwandt, Hannes - 2014
Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380034
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Chinese unions and enterprises performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013
unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229934
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Impact of financial crises on dynamics of capital structure : evidence from Korean listed companies
Tsoy, Lyubov; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study examines the impact of 1997 Asian and 2008 Global financial crises on the capital structure of Korean listed companies. Using a data set covering 1,159 Korean listed non-financial firms from 10 industrial sectors over period 1985-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before...
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Unions, training, and firm performance
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2008
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652706
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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771833
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Services outsourcing and innovation : an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2009
activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896492