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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465497
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Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice : A Comparison of France and the United States
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2004
In a recent series of articles, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny have argued that countries whose legal systems are based on civil law (especially of French origin) have systematically weaker environments for business than those whose legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468406
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A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups
Almeida, Heitor - 2005
We provide a rationale for pyramidal ownership (the control of a firm through a chain of ownership relations) that departs from the traditional argument that pyramids arise to separate cash flow from voting rights. With a pyramidal structure, a family uses a firm it already controls to set up a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467315
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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Design
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1989
This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market...
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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms
Aghion, Philippe - 2013
of factors highlighted in the theory are shown to be important in accounting for delegation, such as heterogeneity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459819
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
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Hit Harder, Recover Slower? : Unequal Employment Effects of the Covid-19 Shock
Lee, Sang Yoon; Park, Minsung; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The destructive economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was distributed unequally across the population. Gender, race and ethnicity, age, education level, and a worker's industry and occupation all mattered. We analyze the initial negative effect and the lingering effect through the recovery...
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Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2006
In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466514
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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States
Borjas, George J. - 2005
This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the … immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467403
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Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1966-2017
Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates the contribution of human capital, measured using both educational attainment and test performance, to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning 1966 through 2017. There are three main findings. First, the magnitude of reductions in the...
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