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The causal effect of agritourism on farm survival
Firgo, Matthias; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2023
examine the causal effect of agritourism on farm survival. To account for self-selection into agritourism, we use regional … variation in tourism intensity that is exogenous to individual farms. On average, agritourism causally increases survival … policies to facilitate entry into agritourism can therefore be effective in keeping farms in the market. Our analysis shows …
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The gender gap in firm productivity in Rwanda : evidence from establishment and household enterprise data
Munyegera, Ggombe Kasim; Precious, Akampumuza - 2018
Rwanda is one of the countries with the best strategies for women empowerment and gender equality in Africa and globally. Nonetheless, some inequalities exist especially in education attainment. This study investigates the gender gaps in business performance using nationally representative...
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Firms' export performance: a fractional econometric approach
Faria, Samuel; Rebelo, João; Gouveia, Sofia - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 2, pp. 521-542
Export activities have become crucial to firms' competitiveness, with determinants of export performance being a challenging field of research, since there is no consensus regarding the explained and explanatory variables or on the econometric methods to be used. Using a panel data of Portuguese...
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Evaluating Covid-19's impact on firm performance in the carec region using night-time light data : Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia
Karymshakov, Kamalbek; Azhgaliyeva, Dina; Mishra, Ranjeeta - 2022
This study examines economic activity measured with firm performance indicators using the changes in intensity of night-time light in four CAREC economies: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. The empirical analysis is based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) data for 2019 and...
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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a com- petitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
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The effect of credit guarantees on R&D investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - 2013
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...
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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...
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Accounting for job growth : disentangling size and age effects in an international cohort comparison
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: April 13 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/10010392549
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Firm survival and gender of firm owner in times of COVID-19 : evidence from 10 European countries
Wagner, Joachim - 2022 - This version: March 3, 2022
This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and firm survival until 2020.The estimated effect of female...
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