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Gender differences in business success of German start-up firms

Gottschalk, Sandra; Niefert, Michaela - 2011

-- Start-ups ; performance ; gender ; female entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries : company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Müller, Elisabeth - 2011

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the "recruitment countries" of south and...

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Beyond the mean gender wage gap : decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression

Heinze, Anja - 2010

capital characteristics and the effect of firm characteristics in explaining the gender wage gap. Furthermore, I implement the … rent-sharing to a lesser extent than their male colleagues. This is the source of the largest part of the pay gap. Gender … differential. -- gender wage gap ; decomposition ; quantile regression …

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Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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Women on the board and executive duration : evidence for European listed firms

Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2015

diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …

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R&D and firm performance in a transition economy

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006

We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...

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The export-growth relationship estimating a dose-response function

Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006

The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a...

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Does innovation stimulate employment? : a firm-level analysis using comparable micro-data from four uropean countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...

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ICT, consulting and innovative capabilities

Cerquera, Daniel (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of the decision to contract ICT consulting on firms' innovative incentives. The paper develops a theoretical model and estimates some of its implications for a sample of German firms. In particular, the paper estimates the average treatment effect of the decision...

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Do older workers lower IT-enabled productivity? : firm-level evidence from Germany

Bertschek, Irene (contributor); Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...

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