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Learning-by-Doing in a Highly Skilled Profession When Stakes Are High: Evidence from Advanced Cancer Surgery

Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014

surgery, our results suggest positive effects of surgery volumes on survival. In addition, we provide evidence on the …

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Government grants, plant survival and employment growth: a micro-econometric analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

important impetus to plant survival and employment growth. We also discover some differences in terms of the effectiveness of …

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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food …

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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

allows us to analyze the characteristics which drive success of the businesses. While survival rates 2.5 years after business …

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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2004

In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. We rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative enterprise surveys). The...

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To Be Born Is Not Enough: The Key Role of Innovative Startups

Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key … that the creation and survival of innovative start-ups should become one qualifying point of the economic policy agenda. …

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Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …

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Innovation, Firm Survival and Productivity: The State of the Art

Ugur, Mehmet; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...

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Learning-by-Doing and Productivity Growth among High-Skilled Workers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021

Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we...

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