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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index: A new employment series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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The Dynamics of Offshoring and Institutions
Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - 2012
, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …
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Private equity, layoffs, and job polarization
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2015
. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …
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Balancing work and solidarity in the Western Democracies
Haskins, Ron - 2010
The capitalist democracies of western Europe and the U.S. have developed extensive social programs, based on the principle of solidarity, that provide assistance to the destitute, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled, and the elderly. Due in part to growing levels of spending on these...
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Economic Perfomance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2007
.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …
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A fair share: Burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010
Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for four burden-sharing rules to reduce CO2 emissions...
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Trends in the Internationalisation of R&D - the German Perspective
Beise, Marian; Belitz, Heike - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 2, pp. 67-85
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Sozio-ökonomische Entwicklungseffekte der Internationalisierung der Produktion: die internationale Textilbranche und das Fallbeispiel der Bundesrepublik und Tschechien
Obst, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 3, pp. 235-253
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Offshoring, total factor productivity and skill-biased technological change
Akhmetova, Zhanar; Ferguson, Shon - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …
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International service transactions: Is time a trade barrier in a connected world?
Dettmer, Bianka - 2010
to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although …
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