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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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Ownership and pay in Britain

Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard F. - 2015

Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...

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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure

Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017

Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about...

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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...

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Family ownership, workplace closure and the recession

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Gulbrandsen, Trygve - 2016

Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...

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Activating change : the role of information and beliefs in social activism

Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2023

What motivates individuals to participate in social activism? Do awareness campaigns and information about others …' willingness to act play a role? We conduct an online experiment within a survey of nearly 2000 Indian men, focusing on activism to …-randomized to engage in one of three forms of activism: signing a petition, making a donation to an NGO fighting for the cause, or …

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Microentrepreneurs' gender difference in labor demand

Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2022

This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...

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Firm ownership control and management practices, with an update on Sub-Saharan Africa

Dabalen, Andrew; Paul, Saumik - 2024

This paper examines if ownership control - the share of largest owner in the firm - explains the difference in the adoption of management best practices between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and rest-of-the-world (ROW). Using a sample of 156,833 firms from 130 countries, of which 25,005 are in SSA,...

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Can politics tame the market? : market responses to government control of fully and partially privatized firms in China

Mavrovitis, Christos; Pal, Sarmistha - 2025

This study examines factors influencing full (FP) versus partial (PP) privatization and how markets respond to government control in PP and FP firms. Exploiting China's 2005 NTS reform as a natural experiment, we find that treated PP firms experienced significantly lower post-reform performance,...

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Access to banking services and poverty reduction : a state-wise assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar - 2009

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...

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