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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation: Evidence from Dutch firm-level data
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important question for firms and for governments to ask whether there are some productivity-enhancing...
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Union decline in Britain: Is chauvinism also to blame?
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2012
The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators it reports an inverse relationship between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender...
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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this comprehensive database and implementing proper instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify...
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Does labor diversity affect firm productivity?
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of the firms' production function (Ackerberg et al. 2006),...
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Measuring cultural diversity and its impact on innovation: Longitudinal evidence from Dutch firms
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2013
To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and tax data. We calculate three distinct measures of...
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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches
van Ours, Jan C.; van Tuijl, Martin A. - 2010
important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six … national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003
for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261655
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...
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