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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance

Fang, Tony - 2014

This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly" face. The government influence plays an important role in...

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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

de Mel, Suresh - 2015

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...

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Productivity, Wages and Profits : Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?

Mahy, Benoit - 2019

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...

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Resource Misallocation in European Firms : The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018

Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...

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Innovation, Firm Survival and Productivity : The State of the Art

Ugur, Mehmet - 2020

We review the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical findings of the literature that investigates the effects of innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth. We aim to contribute to the ongoing debate along...

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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

Autor, David H. - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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Entry, Exit and Productivity : Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...

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Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity

Aslund, Olof; Bratu, Cristina; Lombardi, Stefano; … - 2022

We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using population-wide matched employer-employee data from Sweden. We find substantial earnings returns to working in firms with higher persistent productivity, with greater gains for...

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