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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

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...

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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies: Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the …

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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …

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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

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