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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...
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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries : a case study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001
the time of foundation and the legal form of the limited company reduce the risk of exit. The growth of employment in … sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403326
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Do hospitals respond to increasing prices by supplying fewer services?
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial interest. Classical models of supplier-induced demand predict that medical providers will supply fewer services if they face increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a...
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Media slant against foreign owners : downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - 2012
. -- media economics ; globalization ; economic xenophobia ; multi-national enterprises ; foreign direct investment …
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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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Field experiments in strategy research
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael G.; Jensen, Nathan M. - 2014
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance : a review of cross country evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio (contributor) - 2005
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … growth. A summary of what we learn from the econometric results concludes the paper. -- regulation ; product market … ; performance ; productivity ; innovation ; growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225978
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Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency : selection on productivity or profitability?
Foster, Lucia (contributor);  … - 2005
) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately … producers and the contribution of entry to aggregate productivity growth. -- productivity dynamics ; market selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039650
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Labor market power in developing countries: evidence from Colombian plants
Amodio, Francesco; Roux, Nicolás de - 2021
How much can employers in low and middle-income countries suppress wages below marginal productivity? Using plant and customs data from Colombia, we exploit pre- determined variation across plants in sales export destination combined with variation in exchange rates to generate plant-specific...
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Hospital resources : persistent reallocation under price changes
Wozny, Florian - 2020
Changes in medical expenses may force hospitals to reallocate their resources, which potentially come at the detriment of healthcare quality. Using data on the universe of German hospitals, I investigate resource reallocations between capital stock, human resources, services and the...
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