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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409406
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959698
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291323
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604486
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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
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282402
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652531
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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution: Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2013
structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293174
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Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271801
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514865
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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627855