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A life-cycle theory analysis of French household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our empirical methodology is based on three rich independent microdata surveys...
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The role of firm dynamics in the green transition : carbon productivity decomposition in Finnish manufacturing
Kuosmanen, Natalia; Maczulskij, Terhi - 2023
the Financial Statement data in the Finnish manufacturing sector, we examine the sources of carbon-productivity growth and …
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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
manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531984
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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458981
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation : evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants
Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …
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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015
Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
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The effect of female leadership on establishment and employee outcomes : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2014
In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We use two different measures to identify the gender...
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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...
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Dynamics of first-time patenting firms
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid - 2022
This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from several business registers covering a period of...
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