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Recruiting for Small Business Growth: Micro-level Evidence
Gidehag, Anton; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2016
We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium … positive and statistically significant impact on the productivity of the hiring SME. Interestingly, our results suggest that … professionals with experience from international firms and enterprise groups contribute the most to total factor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654417
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The Effect of Hiring Top Workers on Productivity: What is the Role of Absorptive Capacity?
Lodefalk, Magnus; Tang, Aili - 2017
We examine heterogeneous productivity effects of hiring top workers on small and medium-sized enterprises, using … longitudinal employer-employee data. We find the productivity effect to be stronger for firms with higher absorptive capacity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654420
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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007
-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317919
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The expansion of varieties in the new age of advertising
Baslandze, Salomé; Greenwood, Jeremy; Marto, Ricardo; … - 2023
welfare. We develop a model of advertising and varieties where firms choose the intensity of digital ads directed at specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388429
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Hedonic adaptation to living standards and the hidden cost of parental income
Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007
High parental income, while undeniably causing benefits for a child in terms of better access to education and more favorable labor market outcomes, may at the same time increase a child's income aspirations and thereby reduce financial satisfaction, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315544
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Multiple Pricing for Personal Assistance Services
Andersson, Tommy; Ellegård, Lina Maria; Enache, Andreea; … - 2022
This paper provides a general theoretical framework that captures the essential features of a Swedish reform where private and public health care providers serve patients with certain functional impairments. Because providers receive a fixed hourly compensation for their services (identical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208905
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Saving social security
Lane, Edward - 2024
For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581826
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Electricity storage and transmission: Complements or substitutes?
Neetzow, Paul; Pechan, Anna; Eisenack, Klaus - 2018
Electricity from renewable sources often cannot be generated when and where it is needed. To deal with these temporal and spatial discrepancies, one frequently proposed approach is to expand storage capacities and transmission grids. It is often argued that the two technologies substitute each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152452
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Financialisation and work: New transdisciplinary insights from micro-level survey data
Betzelt, Sigrid; Santos, Ana C.; Lopes, Cláudia A. - 2016
financial systems or the extent of household engagement with finance, nor from mainstream welfare regime typologies. Instead, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572680
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Inventories, employment and hours
Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002
the role of labor hoarding as an explanation of procyclical productivity and the persistence of inventory stocks Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293442