significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking. …

The present article links business takeovers to the literature on serial autocorrelation of growth rates. The aim of … the study is to identify the effects of successions on the performance of small German firms by analysing the growth … that for the first two years after a business takeover, small firms are subject to negative serial correlation of growth …

agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment …

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of market-based approaches in the provision of public-sponsored training … programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets … disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality are identified from bidding processes in which public and private …

data on participants in training, in a work practice program and in subsidized employment. One result is that enrolling an …