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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation on employment at the firm level using a uniquely long panel … dataset of German manufacturing firms. The overall effect of innovations on employment often remains unclear in theoretical … innovation categories. We find clearly positive effects for product and process innovations on employment growth with the effects …
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dynamic increasing returns to scale. Kaldor's third law purports that overall growth is positively correlated to employment … growth in manufacturing output, and negatively correlated to employment in non-manufacturing sectors. The empirical results …
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privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …
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inappropriate minimum wage schedules. Both measures made East German production possibilities and employment decline. …
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The paper elaborates on the employment intensity of growth. Previous evidence regarding this question is surveyed … that the employment intensity of growth is influenced by the country's wage setting process, the share of the service …
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In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … indication of adverse effects for (the three) other employment outcomes identified here. Moreover, with the possible exception of …
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employment stability enjoyed by workers. This implies that in Italy women with highly protected and stable jobs find it easier to …
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This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process. …
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This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
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