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Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries
Pal, Sarmistha - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
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Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy
Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - 2014
Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the startup was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative data set of 4,568 German...
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Competitive strategy, performance appraisal and firm results
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2016
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...
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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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Performance pay and earnings : evidence from personnel records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas (contributor); Riddell, Chris (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland …
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Education policy and intergenerational income mobility : evidence from the Finnish comprehensive school reform
Pekkarinen, Tuomas (contributor);  … - 2006
reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The Finnish comprehensive school reform of 1972 …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking …
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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Long-term effects of forced migration
Sarvimäki, Matti; Uusitalo, Roope; Jäntti, Markus - 2009
comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to the Soviet Union and resettled the entire …
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Labour market effects of the polytechnic education reform : the Finnish experience
Böckerman, Petri; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Uusitalo, Roope - 2009
This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The …
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School tracking and development of cognitive skills
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari - 2009
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive … school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the … effect of this reform on the test scores in the Finnish Army Basic Skills test. The identification strategy relies on a …
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