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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …
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Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups
Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015
This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...
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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation
Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269309
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Don't Downsize This! Social Reactions to Mass Dismissals on Twitter
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Ferreira, Bruno Chaves; … - 2020
We study the reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale job-destruction and job-creation events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around...
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The Way People Lie in Markets: Detectable vs. Deniable Lies
Tergiman, Chloe; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
In a finitely repeated game with asymmetric information, we experimentally study how individuals adapt the nature of their lies when settings allow for reputation-building. While some lies can be detected ex post by the uninformed party, others remain deniable. We find that traditional market...
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Capitalism Recoupled
Kelly, Colm; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper examines major forces that have decoupled economic and business prosperity from social prosperity and explores how recoupling can be promoted. Economists have specified well-known conditions under which free market enterprise with shareholder value maximization is efficient. These...
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Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Haylock, Michael; Kampkötter, Patrick; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2023
We offer a comprehensive analysis of the organizational and behavioral foundations of employees' helping and antisocial behavior as an integral part of a firm's workplace culture and working climate. Using representative employer-employee panel data of larger German private-sector firms, we...
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Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation
Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761715
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Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms’ productive characteristics influence managers’ attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are...
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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
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