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and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly …
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Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role … SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are …. Significant resources from governments and international organizations are directed to SMEs to maximize their socioeconomic impact …
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performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We evaluate the effectiveness of regional, national and European funding … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find … results suggest that public innovation programs should challenge SMEs to go for more ambitious innovations in order to …
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seems to be an undersupply of occupational pension provision particularly in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs …
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This paper uses a non parametric matching procedure to match survey replies to balance sheet information. It draws on the SAFE survey on access to finance for a sample of 11886 firms in the euro area which are matched with their nearest neighbour in an extended dataset with balance sheet...
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We investigate the effect of sovereign stress and of unconventional monetary policy on small firms’ financing patterns during the euro area debt crisis. We find that after the crisis started, firms in stressed countries were more likely to be credit rationed, both in the quantity and in the...
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In this paper we consider the relation between firms’ financial structure, access to external finance and labor productivity using a large dataset of firm-level data for Euro-area countries during the period 1995-2011. Our empirical strategy is twofold. First we develop an indicator of...
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A skilled and educated workforce can support the competitiveness of enterprises of all sizes. However, smaller firms may face greater challenges in developing human capital. We explore differences between smaller and larger firms in offering skills training and in hiring workers with more formal...
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studying whether the relative importance of owner-managed SMEs has an effect on firms' apprenticeship activity. Using a cross …
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firms and SMEs. To do that, we use detailed information of exported products by firms during the period 1995-2005. Our … our results suggest that this positive effect is only for SMEs. In terms of employment and sales, we find that export … product churning has positive effect on large firms and lower - and in some case negative - on SMEs. It seems that changes in …
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