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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China: evidence from new micro data

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …

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Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay …

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Risk tolerance and entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K.; Panos, Georgios A. - 2013

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...

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Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - 2015

We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the labor market outcomes of the persons participating in the program and on the performance of the firms that hired these subsidized workers. Using data on the population of program participants, both...

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Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

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Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Canzian, Giulia; Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2015

This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), generating a source of exogenous...

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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea

Heshmati, Almas - 2013

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...

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