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Employment Growth in Newly Established Firms - Is There Evidence for Academic Entrepreneur's Human Capital Depreciation?
Mueller, Kathrin - 2013
This paper contributes to the literature of academic entrepreneurship by investigating the effect of a possible depreciation of academic knowledge after leaving the university. The possibility of a person's human capital depreciation has up to now mainly been used to explain forgone earnings due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202261
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The effect of discretionary accruals on firm growth : empirical evidence for SMEs from emerging Europe
Anton, Sorin Gabriel; Carp, Mihai - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 4, pp. 1128-1148
practice is more used over the high-growth period (2006-2009), with negative effects on future performance. Furthermore, the … the accruals, as well as for the use in the performance analysis of some indicators that eliminate the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270690
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Milk or wine : mutual funds' (dis)economies of life
Dahm, Laura K.; Sorhage, Christoph - 2015 - First Draft: July 2015
strategies. The lack of innovation manifests in less performance enhancing trading and fewer investments in hard-to-value stocks …. Still, we provide evidence that less performance sensitive as well as non-institutional investors seek investments in mature … funds and that they benefit from more stable investment styles and performance outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300267
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Milk or Wine : Mutual Funds’ (Dis)economies of Life
Dahm, Laura - 2015
strategies. The lack of innovation manifests in less performance enhancing trading and fewer investments in hard-to-value stocks …. Still, we provide evidence that less performance sensitive as well as non-institutional investors seek investments in mature … funds and that they benefit from more stable investment styles and performance outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019267
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Size of training firms and cumulated long-run unemployment exposure : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers’ careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435940
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Success or failure? : a multi-dimensional analysis of business-, industry- and region-specific determinants of survival
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - 2010
Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171147
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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: 1 October 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437615
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Do Women Lag Behind Men? A Matched-Sample Analysis of the Dynamics of Gender Gaps
Farhat, Joseph B. - 2016
Previous studies found mixed answers whether women-owned firms are less successful than men-owned firms. Women entrepreneurs may lag behind men because they tend to have less human capital, they may have different personal preferences toward their businesses, and they tend to choose highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991736
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Size of Training Firms : The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
Müller, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996536
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Minimum Wage Increases and Employer Performance
Agarwal, Sumit - 2020
on the impact on firm performance, prices, and quality. Exploiting the staggered changes in minimum wages in the US over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837033