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differences across size categories come from two sources. First, objective conditions of the business environment do vary … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment … reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of medium size and large firms. With significant differences between firms …
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team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
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Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification …
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countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to … suggested. The analysis shows that greater efforts are needed to stimulate the diversification of the production base by …
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This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using … firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation. Next various measures of job satisfaction are related to the … well as increase productivity and reduce turnover. The nature of the management-employee relations with firm size and job …
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in and out of jobs. We have for Denmark found that size on its own does not have a big impact, but young firms are much …
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the empirical evidence. Job status and firm size are the most relevant characteristics for training participation …
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Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for goods and services. This paper makes three contributions...
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cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated … with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … quite well for properties of Japanese size-distribution data, with a model-implied TFP of about 83% of the U.S. Distortions …
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