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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126033
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The impact of management practices on SME performance
Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814913
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Ethnic diversity and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share … the performance of teams. In line with theoretical predictions, our data suggest that this positive effect could be …
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Jacks-of-All-Trades? : the effect of balanced skills on team performance
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364491
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Size of training firms : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers' careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454435
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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases … shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675518
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High-growth entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881435
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The intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and development economics : a review towards a new view
Hessels, Jolanda; Naudé, Wim - 2017
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated. It is moreover also because there is no unified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743542
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Managerial performance of a female-owned and home-based firm
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Platt, Katarzyna; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2020
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on … home-based on owners' managerial performance. We estimate the average treatment effect of female-owned and homebased firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389874
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
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