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One-Third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries : First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and supplementary information collected from the firms with...

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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela - 2009

-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use … variation across sectors in tariff changes after the Colombian trade reform to assess whether the impact of market fundamentals … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the …

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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond : First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo - 2010

itself over firms that serve the German market only is tiny. Furthermore, an ex-ante differential that is statistically …

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The Diffusion of Pay for Performance Across Occupations

Bayo Moriones, José Alberto - 2010

ownership and the human resources management department in the incidence of pay for performance plans and their variability of …

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Capital-Skill Complimentarity : Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in Ghana

Akay, Gokhan H. - 2010

in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Female Labour Force Participation in MENA's Manufacturing Sector : The Implications of Firm-Related and National Factors

Fakih, Ali - 2014

's participation rates in the labour market. This paper examines the implications of firm-related and national factors for Female …

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Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline

Boulhol, Herve; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2021

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity Among Permanent and Contract Workers in India : Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2021

increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage … market rules and regulations, union membership etc. Contrary to the general expectation the study finds that permanent …

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