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productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge … manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative activity - R innovative output; and productivity …
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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different...
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a negative impact on average white-collar wages at the firm level. Output elasticity of violence is also shown to be …
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-employee data on the Portuguese economy for the 2010-2018 period, we estimate the impact of management teams' human capital on the … conclude that policies that induce an improvement in the managerial human capital of micro and small-sized firms have …
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) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 …, is greater than one indicating constant returns to scale in the firm production function …
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What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a … other aspects of firm behaviour. In this paper we consider the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability by exploiting … firm profitability was significantly reduced (and wages significantly raised) by the minimum wage introduction. This …
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The capital-to-labor ratio has steadily risen in the U.S. and elsewhere during the post-WWII period. Since the 1970s … determinant such as the observed decline in the relative price of new capital goods, or the change in production technology … market augmented by a CES production function that allows firms to substitute between capital and labor at varying degrees …
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …-managed firms. These differences are related to orthodox models of the capitalist firm and worker co-op. The estimates of the wage …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …
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This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival forenterprises in Germany using … the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival inGermany, one of the most important destination …
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