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Finanzierung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen in der Corona-Pandemie
Pahnke, André; Nielen, Sebastian; Dienes, Christian; … - 2023
Unternehmen (KMU). Zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie ist die Anzahl der KMU mit Finanzierungsproblemen gestiegen, sowohl in … Deutschland als auch in weiteren Ländern des Euroraums. KMU in Deutschland waren jedoch etwas stärker betroffen. Ein wesentlicher … Möglichkeiten der Finanzierung über Eigenmittel. Zusätzlich ist für die betroffenen KMU auch der Zugang zu Fremdkapital schwieriger …
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287854
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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries …
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Small business finance in Finland: A descriptive study
Hyytinen, Ari; Pajarinen, Mika - 2002
Using new data originating from a recently conducted survey, this paper examines the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in private equity and debt markets in Finland. We find that the three most important sources of funds are the principal owner’s equity, trade credit...
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Bargaining and Strategic Discrimination
Björnerstedt, Jonas; Westermark, Andreas - 2006
In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-17
Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies
Fang, Hanming; Norman, Peter - 2001
This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
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