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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity
Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version
The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity … Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost Structure Panel we assess differences in productivity (1) between … groups, region, sector and size of firms, it is shown that group members have a productivity premium between 6 and 28 …
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Job switching : what's in it for me?
Backman, Mikaela; Kilkenny, Maureen - 2014
measured through the firms productivity, profitability and the ability to be innovative. By having this broad definition of …
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Social networks, promotions, and the glass-ceiling effect
Neugart, Michael; Zaharievay, Anna - 2020
Empirical studies show that women are under-represented in highly paid top management positions of firms (glass-ceiling effect) which could be a cause of the gender wage gap. In order to study women's career paths, we develop a search and matching model where job ladders consist of three...
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Generating formal employment in a context of implementation of the Decent Work Agenda : a review over territories Bahian identity
Medeiros Junior, Helcio de; Souza, Laumar Neves de; … - 2015
The positive dynamics of the national economy in relation to the generation of jobs formal has been an issue that has generated a great deal of interest in Brazilian society and, consequently, has gained much space in more different vehicles of communication, in the course of the last decade....
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Local labor market effects of FDI regulation in Indonesia
Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2020
Using yearly Indonesian labor market data for 2000 to 2015, we investigate the impact of a protectionist foreign direct investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly granular product level and has been repeatedly...
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Regional payroll tax cuts and individual wages : heterogeneous effects across education groups
Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2016
The empirical evidence on the incidence of payroll taxation is primarily based on the wage bill of firms. This paper applies matched employer-employee register data on individual wages for all private sector workers in Norway. Exploiting a payroll tax reform and using the...
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Firm heterogeneity and regional business cycles differentials
Basile, Roberto; De Nardis, Sergio; Pappalardo, Carmine - 2012
This study represents a first attempt to empirically analyze the role of firm heterogeneity in regional business cycle behaviour. Working with monthly Italy's firms data and estimating a random effects ordered probit model, we first document sizable asymmetries in Northern and Southern firms...
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Technological progress and regional disparities in (un)employment
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2014 - Draft of a paper
One of the key issues in economics is the explanation of unemployment and its variation across different economies. Doing so, modern mainstream macroeconomics refers to the effects of financial crises and to institutional structures and their variation across countries. However, unemployment...
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Labor density and productivity in Spain : evidence from geographically disaggregated data
Díaz Dapena, Alberto; Fernández Vázquez, Esteban; … - 2015
average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that … agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively … decreasing, but still positive, effect of employment density along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. …
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