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"As rare as a panda" : how facial attractiveness, gender, and occupation affect interview callbacks at Chinese firms
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Lei, Lei - 2014
This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size....
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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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Globalization and firm performance
Catão, Luis; Faria, Pedro de; Martins, António; … - 2023
Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...
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Corporate training and skill gaps : did COVID-19 stem EU convergence in training investments?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022
remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …
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The impact of opportunity zones on commercial investment and economic activity
Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2022
the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in … the impact of OZs on commercial investment and economic activity. Using data on the universe of all significant commercial … investments in the United States, we find that OZ selection led to practically no increase in investment in OZs. These findings …
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Does the wealth tax kill jobs?
Bjørneby, Marie; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2020
tax imposed on owners of small and medium sized businesses affects their firms' investment and employment decisions … employment growth in the firm it controls. The rationale behind this result appears to be that the tax value of a given wealth …
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Interest rate hysteresis in macroeconomic investment under uncertainty
Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias - 2019
The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …
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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the Euro area
Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019
The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …
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Unions, two-tier bargaining and physical capital investment : theory and firm-level evidence from Italy
Cardullo, Gabriele; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2018
level, raises the amount of investment per worker in the economy compared to a one-tier bargaining scheme, in which earnings … investment per worker and the presence of a two-tier bargaining agreement that we find in a representative sample of Italian …
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Downward revision of investment decisions after corporate tax hikes
Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023
This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …
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