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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap : Is R&D the Main Culprit?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2011
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127961
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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2014
's future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research … productivity improves when the incoming department Chair's publications are highly cited. A one SD increase in citations is … associated with a 0.5 SD later rise in departmental productivity. By contrast, the quality-weighted publication record per se of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060129
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Working in Family Firms : Less Paid But More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data
Bassanini, Andrea - 2011
We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122406
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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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The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment : Evidence from a New Survey
Anagnostopoulos, Achilleas - 2012
This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece's employment protection law (EPL) and national wage minimum for temporary employment. We find higher temporary employment rates especially among a "grey" market group of workplaces that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107197
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The Evolution of the Us Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity
Belzil, Christian - 2020
We estimate a dynamic model of schooling on two cohorts of the NLSY and find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833239
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Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession
Bryson, Alex - 2016
Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993945
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Families in Macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996540
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Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks : Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Huu - 2017
. The hypothesis is that, beyond the channel of labour productivity, entrepreneurs that are confronted with an unfavourable … of resources. We find evidence of a marginal productivity differential between family and hired labour and highlight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965010
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Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence
Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, … - 2022
This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life-cycle trajectories, uncertainty, and credit constraints....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078013