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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...
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Does outsourcing increase profitability?
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2004
We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of the data is that it records detailed information...
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Got technology? The impact of computers and cell phones on productivity in a difficult business climate ; evidence from firms with female owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - 2011
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. This study shows that such reliance has significant positive impacts on productivity as measured...
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Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey
Berberoglu, Giray; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three different kinds of tutoring. They then describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private...
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Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
Balliauw, Matteo; Verheuge, Marco; Baert, Stijn - 2022
One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...
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Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey
Berberoglu, Giray; Tansel, Aysit - 2014
This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three different kinds of tutoring. They then describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398315
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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert; Wang, Youjuan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …
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Temporary and Persistent Poverty among Ethnic Minorities and the Majority in Rural China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …
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