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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival

Brown, J. David (contributor); … - 2009

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third, we test our model empirically using data from Germany and the …

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013

conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. Except for low …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

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Innovation, productivity, and training

Dostie, Benoît - 2014

The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms' human capital investments and innovation performance,...

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Sexual bias and household consumption : a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China

Gong, Xiaodong; Soest, Arthur van; Zhang, Ping - 2000

We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...

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Banks information policies, financial literacy and household wealth

Fort, Margherita; Manaresi, Francesco; Trucchi, Serena - 2012

We investigate the causal effect of financial literacy on financial assets, exploiting banks information policies for identification. In Italy, banks who belong to the PattiChiari consortium have implemented policies aimed at increasing transparency and procedural simplification. These policies...

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Strategic hiring behavior in empirical matching functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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A multi-method approach to identifying norms and normative expectations within a corporate hierarchy : evidence from the financial services industry

Burks, Stephen V.; Krupka, Erin L. - 2011

This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...

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Financial advice and household financial portfolios

Brown, Sarah; Bucciol, Alessandro; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2021

We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice is associated with a reallocation of wealth away from real estate and towards bonds and stocks, especially when households seek financial advice "for investments". Having a...

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Consumers and the brain drain : product design and the gains from emigration

Kuhn, Peter Joseph (contributor); … - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...

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