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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 - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109440
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Bribes vs. Taxes : Market Structure and Incentives
Amodio, Francesco - 2018
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914336
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Exports, Imports and Profitability : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123600
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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Marconi, Gabriele - 2015
increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021942
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Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?
Burke, Paul J. - 2010
Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth and moves toward and away from greater democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146834
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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility : An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
Clark, Andrew; Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A. - 2021
The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found positive correlations between individual income and individual measures of subjective well being. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316988
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129918
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134819
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136032
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138258