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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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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms: new evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2008
The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
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News, Emotions, and Policy Views on Immigration
Manzoni, Elena; Murard, Elie; Quercia, Simone; Tonini, Sara - 2024
) sensational news about immigrant crimes, (ii) statistical information about immigration, or to (iii) the combination of both …. First, we find different effects of news depending on the severity of the reported crime: while the news of a rape against a … young woman significantly increases the demand for anti-immigration policies, there is no impact of the news of a petty …
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National or Local? The Demand for News in Italy during COVID-19
Castriota, Stefano; Delmastro, Marco; Tonin, Mirco - 2020
Looking at TV news viewership in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigate whether demand for national and … local news depends on national or local events. Exploiting the fact that epidemiological developments display a great deal … of variation among the different regions, we find that demand for both national news and, more surprisingly, local news …
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Advising Policymakers Through the Media
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the education of policymakers through the media. It is the silver bullet of policy advice in comparison to...
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