and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … utilization. Resilience to violence differs widely across different types of employment within firms and across firms with … of the most affected firms and the channels through which they are affected. …

We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the … characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms' leverage, whereas firm characteristics and human capital of both founders …&D in young firms and, at the same time, a higher R&D intensity allows for a higher loan share. This relationship cannot be …

from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … Immigrants. Following the "epidemiological approach", we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …

from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … Immigrants. Following the “epidemiological approach”, we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …

dataset of accounting data from Italy and Austria we find there is only a limited relationship between severance pay and …

investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We … use two different measures to identify the gender composition of the top layer based on direct survey data: the fraction …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …