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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain : Evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2021
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324994
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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher M. - 2021
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324928
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087867
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104968
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Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer : Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?
Henley, Andrew - 2019
Only a minority of micro-businesses create jobs for others. This paper addresses whether personal characteristics and resources of the microbusiness owner or the local external economic environment are drivers of job creation. In the UK context of significant growth in self-employment but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870291
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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarraran, Pablo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and … American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155323
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822844
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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Bryson, Alex - 2016
, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986766
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
Forth, John - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923226
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749897