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representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find … between the family/non-family gaps in wages and job security. -- family firms ; wages ; job security ; compensating wage …
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We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional … consequential choices of startups. We argue that middle management is positively related to introducing product innovations because … sample of German high-tech startups, we find support for our conjectures. …
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employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …
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aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of …
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, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … aggregate employment …
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In many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand. Yet little is known about how successful such...
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There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most … paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in … Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The …
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How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...
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This paper contributes to the understanding of how small firms are organized and managed. We develop and test a simple empirical entrepreneur-worker matching model in small firms where individual skills play a central role. The model contemplates the existence of complementarities between...
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