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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
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652531
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307478
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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts
Devicienti, Francesco; Manello, Alessandro; Vannoni, Davide - 2016
This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...
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Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Wang, Xiaojun; … - 2017
We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly...
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Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Svejnar, Jan; … - 2018
Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Li, Sherry Xin; … - 2018
Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which...
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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019
This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...
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Technical Progress and Induced Innovation in China: A Variable Profit Function Approach
Wong, Gary; Fleisher, Belton M.; Zhao, Min Qiang; … - 2020
the idea of a firm's two-stage optimization problem, we develop a new parametric form of the variable profit function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207698