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Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
Bhattacharya, Dhritiman - 2011
with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of …
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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis - 2013
structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085471
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What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data
Liang, Zheng - 2017
Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945239
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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130788
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Determinants of Further Training : Evidence for Germany
Grund, Christian - 2010
Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20 year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135987
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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
heterogeneous firms that emphasises the role of productivity for exporting. It shows that productivity is important for exporting as … is hypothesized in the formal theoretical models, but that contrary to the assumption made in these models productivity … is not (only) the result from a random draw from the productivity distribution – it is strongly positively related to …
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Recent Longitudinal Evidence of Size and Union Threat Effects Across Genders
Wunnava, Phani V. - 2012
Based on data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth covering years 2000 through 2008, it is evident that both male and female workers in medium/larger establishments receive not only higher wages but also have a higher probability of participating in benefit programs than those in...
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The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size for Self-Employed Workers
Bargain, Olivier - 2012
We develop a model where formal sector firms pay tax and informal ones do not, but informal firms risk incurring the penalty associated with non-compliance. Workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees. Workers with higher managerial skills will run larger firms while...
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105996
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit - 2013
well as increase productivity and reduce turnover. The nature of the management-employee relations with firm size and job …
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