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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …
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Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School : Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324797
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836579
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Productivity Dynamics : The Role of Competition in a Service Industry
Breda, Thomas - 2019
changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858478
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The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles : Evidence from Personnel Data
de Grip, Andries - 2011
In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 percent increase in tenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 percent of a standard deviation. This translates to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117622
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Domadenik, Polona - 2014
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050620
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Do Women Earn Less Even as Social Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul - 2014
Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are commonworldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. Weexploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to supportmanufacturing jobs...
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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy
Suedekum, Jens - 2006
mergers. Cross-border Mamp;A is privately and socially more attractive than domestic mergers. National competition policy may … be too permissive towards Mamp;A, because it does not take into account the negative impact of decreasing competition on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779641