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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
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Top team diversity and business performance : latent class analysis for firms and cities
Nathan, Max - 2014
A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408990
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Commuting, wages and bargaining power
Rupert, Peter; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009
A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on the bargaining power of workers. Since not all combinations of distance and wages are accepted,...
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Estimating a class of triangular simultaneous equations models without exclusion restrictions
Klein, Roger W. (contributor); Vella, Francis (contributor) - 2006
This paper provides a control function estimator to adjust for endogeneity in the triangular simultaneous equations model where there are no available exclusion restrictions to generate suitable instruments. Our approach is to exploit the dependence of the errors on exogenous variables (e.g....
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What can life satisfaction data tell us about discrimination against sexual minorities? : a structural equation model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wooden, Mark - 2014
Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys that provide nationally representative samples for two different countries - Australia (the...
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Dynamic econometric program evaluation
Abbring, Jaap H. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Chinese unions and enterprises performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013
unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- Firm survival ; profitability …
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Human capital spillovers and economic performance in the workplace in 2004 : some British evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka (contributor); Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2007
This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …
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