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How Does Long-Term Finance Affect Economic Volatility?
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2016
-level growth volatility. We find that firms in industries with stronger preference to use long-term finance relative to short …-term finance experience lower growth volatility in countries with better-developed financial systems, as these firms may benefit … mitigate refinancing risk and therefore growth volatility associated with short-term financing. Increased availability of long …
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The Pecking Order of Innovation Finance
Mina, Andrea - 2018
This paper examines the relationship between firms' innovation activities and the hierarchy of financing behaviors. We analyse the role of innovation inputs (R&D), intermediate outputs (patents) and outcomes (product and process innovations) as sources of information asymmetry in financing...
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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...
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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? : cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629715
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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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The labor market performance of first-generation immigrants : evidence for Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 1999
This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as an indicator and natives as the reference group for the analysis. The analysis proceeds in two steps. In a first step, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are...
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Dräger, Vanessa - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099406
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House Prices and Employment Reallocation : International Evidence
Bover, Olympia - 2007
Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, while in several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others the share of employment in this sector did not significantly change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand...
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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality : An International Comparison
Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2021
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...
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The exposure of microfinance institutions to financial risk
Gietzen, Thomas - 2015
This study examines the exposure of microfinance institutions to liquidity, interest rate and foreign exchange (FX) risk. It builds on a manually collected set of data on FX positions and the maturity structure of assets and liabilities of the largest microfinance institutions worldwide. The...
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