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Workforce reduction and firm performance: a comparison between French publicly-listed and non-listed companies, 1994-2000
Reynaud, Bénédicte; Degorre, Arnaud - HAL - 2007
Using an exhaustive database with labour, accounting and financial market information on French firms (1994-2000), the authors analyse the causes and the consequences of a workforce reduction in 1996 - the year chosen as reference - on firms' performance in a long term perspective. One important...
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Workforce reduction and firm performance: Evidence from French firm data
Reynaud, Bénédicte - HAL - 2010
Using a large annual data base of French firms (1994-2000), this article examines the determinants of a workforce reduction of publicly-listed and non-listed companies and their consequences on firm performance. Firstly, workforce reduction appears to be a defensive response to an adverse...
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Star wars: The empirics strike back
Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - HAL - 2012
Journals favor rejections of the null hypothesis. This selection upon results may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...
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The determinants of Job Access Channels: Evidence from the Youth Labor Market in France
Ghrairi, Jihan - HAL - 2013
This article aims to study youth employability on the job access channel that provided their entry into the labor market. We examine the determinants of the formal and informal job access channels. For this purpose, we estimate a Multinomial Logit model of access channels controlling for...
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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices
BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012
that migration might not be an unmitigated blessing for Egypt, as it has contributed to slow down the process of …Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether … rates. Relying on a two-step instrumental variable approach to control for the endogeneity of the migration decisions, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418567
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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices
BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012
that migration might not be an unmitigated blessing for Egypt, as it has contributed to slow down the process of …Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether … rates. Relying on a two-step instrumental variable approach to control for the endogeneity of the migration decisions, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393827
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Computer-based business simulations as revealers of cultural and learning differences. The case of Business Administration and Business Informatics Students in Egypt.
Antheaume, Nicolas; Catalo, Marie; Ismail, Howayda - HAL - 2012
In this article we demonstrate, through the case of Egypt, how the emphasis on one specific learning mode from primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899423
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The impact of training, of application and of time on negotiator styles.
Soliman, Chérine; Stimec, Arnaud; Antheaume, Nicolas - HAL - 2012
, over a period of 12 months. This experiment, which took place in Egypt, enabled us to propose a dynamic typology of …
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Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt
Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012
question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that entrepreneurs' migration experience significantly improves the chances … of population growth and the real oil price as alternative instruments for migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821266
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Migration and capital accumulation: Evidence from rural Mexico
Chiodi, Vera; Jaimovich, Esteban; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural … households in Mexico over the period 1997- 2006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a …. Exploiting within family variation and an instrumental variable strategy, we show that migration indeed accelerates productive …
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