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Synergizing ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk; Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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Size-dependent regulations, firm size distribution, and reallocation
Gourio, François; Roys, Nicolas - 2013
In France, firms with 50 employees or more face substantially more regulation than firms with less than 50. As a result … regulation as the combination of a sunk cost that must be paid the first time the firm reaches 50 employees, and a payroll tax … indirect inference by fitting the discontinuity of the size distribution. The key finding is that the regulation is equivalent …
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Financialisation and work: New transdisciplinary insights from micro-level survey data
Betzelt, Sigrid; Santos, Ana C.; Lopes, Cláudia A. - 2016
The paper examines the interdependencies of financialisation and working conditions by exploring the comparative findings of a micro-level survey on household income, household debt, and working conditions which was conducted in five European countries representing different institutional and...
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How Important is Employment Protection Legislation for Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Central and Eastern European Countries?
Leibrecht, Markus; Scharler, Johann - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of labor market conditions and in particular of employment protection legislation as a determinant of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment flows to seven Central and Eastern European countries. Although our results indicate...
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Can Portugal escape stagnation without opting out from the Eurozone?
Leao, Pedro; Palacio-Vera, Alfonso - 2011
The creation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has not brought significant gains to the Portuguese economy in terms of real convergence with wealthier eurozone countries. We analyze the causes of the underperformance of the Portuguese economy in the last decade, discuss its growth...
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Wage policy and endogenous wage rigidity: a representative view from the inside
Agell, Jonas; Bennmarker, Helge - 2002
We report the results from a representative survey of human resource managers in 885 Swedish firms. We estimate that during the severe recession of the 1990s, only 1.1 percent of workers took a cut in regular nominal pay. We trace the lack of wage moderation to a combination of exogenous...
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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014
Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector. We find that there are...
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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility: An exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015
One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act … discussed as a pointed labour regulation issue. It has been widely argued that Indian labour law imposes institutional …
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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India: Exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016
The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...
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