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The aim of this work is to investigate the role played by the so-called 'globalization' processes of the last couples of decades on the international patterns of technological learning and on the distribution of incomes and growth. First, we re-assess the evidence on the general patterns of the...
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This work brings together two distinct pieces of evidence concerning, at the macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at the micro level, the size distributions of firms and the properties of their growth rates. First, our empirical analysis provides a new...
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Serial correlation in annual growth rates carries a lot of information on growth processes it allows us to directly observe firm performance as well as to test theories. Using a 7-year balanced panel of 10 000 French manufacturing firms, we observe that small firms typically are subject to...
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This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reducedform vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as...
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While Gibrat's Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and firm growth. Using data on French manufacturing firms, we observe a relatively low, but statistically significant, negative...
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We attempt to describe the coevolution of employment growth, sales growth and growth of profits in a panel of French manufacturing firms 1996-2004. Our analysis entails 'recursive' panel vector autoregressions, whereby we impose the structure of employment growth leading to contemporaneous sales...
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out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …
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die Fokussierung auf das Verhalten von Unternehmen übernommen, denn es geht um den Einbau einer "Mikro-Logik" in die … wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Regelungen sowiederen Bedeutung auf Anpassungsprozesse von Unternehmen können Unterschiedezwischen verschiedenen … Ländern bei der Veränderung der Institutionen an der Nahtstelle des Wohlfahrtsstaats und der Unternehmen während der achtziger …
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This study presents a comparative analysis of regulatory thresholds applicable to firms in France and in Germany. A …Die Studie analysiert die arbeitsrechtlichen Schwellenwerte, die für Firmen in Frankreich und Deutschland gelten. Die … Firma den 50. Mitarbeiter einstellt. Die empirische Analyse zu kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen des verarbeitenden …
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sources on small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Thuringia. …
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