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Technical efficiency and port competition: Revisiting the Bohai Economic Rim, China
Wang, Grace W. Y.; Gao, Chen - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 5 (2012) 1, pp. 115-130
encouraging for policy makers to move toward the decentralized port governance in China. …The Bohai Economic Rim plays an important role in supporting China's economic growth. For this research, we selected … nine main ports in the region to study whether intra-port competition or corporatization would improve efficiency. Using a …
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Age and gender effects of workforce composition on productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - In: Contemporary Economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 25-46
age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … correlation of age on firms' profitability. Moreover, our micro-econometric analysis reveals for the first time that the ceteris … level of profitability in these firms. …
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Exporting firm dynamics and productivity growth: Evidence from China
Huang, Xiaobing; Liu, Xiaolian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-8, pp. 1-31
study shows that in China, the combined contribution of the three components capturing reallocation amounts to almost half … specifically, the data suggest that private firms, firms situated in the eastern region of China and firms from high …
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The UK national minimum wage's impact on productivity
Rizov, Marian; Croucher, Richard; Lange, Thomas - In: British Journal of Management 27 (2016) 4, pp. 819-835
Low pay poses issues for managers internationally. We examine productivity in low-paying sectors in Britain, since the National Minimum Wage’s (NMW) introduction. We use a multiple channel analytical strategy, emphasising the wage-incentives channel and linking it to a model of unobserved...
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Long shadows of the walking dead on economic activity
Dincer, N. Nergiz; Pektekin, Pelin; Tekin-Koru, Ayça - In: Central Bank Review (CBR) 23 (2023) 4, pp. 1-18
This paper presents the panorama of zombie firms in the Turkish economy, which are highly inefficient, highly indebted firms that have low or sometimes negative productivity, and provides an analysis of the impact of these firms on economic activity for the period 2012-2015. Our results suggest...
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Breitbandversorgung erhöht die Produktivität von Unternehmen, aber nicht alle profitieren gleichermaßen
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 89 (2022) 25/26, pp. 359-365
In der Diskussion über die staatliche Förderung des Breitbandausbaus wird immer wieder die Frage aufgeworfen, ob und in welchem Umfang Unternehmen von neuen Netzen profitieren. Empirische Analysen auf Grundlage von Unternehmensdaten und Daten zur Breitbandverfügbarkeit in Deutschland zeigen,...
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The motivation for engineering change in the industrial company
Maceika, Augustinas; Toločka, Eligijus - In: Business: Theory and Practice 22 (2021) 1, pp. 98-108
The authors of this article established the goal to investigate parameters related to the staff motivation for engineering change in the industrial company as case study and to predict the ways of improving the performance of the company. Employees of the company can be more motivated to...
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Markups of Exporters and Importers: Evidence from Hungary
Hornok, Cecilia; Muraközy, Balázs - In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 121 (2019) 3, pp. 1303-1333
This paper studies the relationship between different proxies of firm-level markups and trade status using balance sheet information linked to detailed trade data from Hungary between 1995-2003. We find that importing is strongly positively correlated with markup measures both across and within...
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Firm productivity, heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics: A data-driven investigation
Constantinescu, Mihnea; Proškutė, Aurelija - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 2, pp. 216-247
In this paper, we offer a unique firm-level view of the empirical regularities underlying the evolution of the Lithuanian economy over the period of 2000-2014. Employing a novel dataset, we investigate key distributional moments of real and financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in...
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Wirtschaftliche Folgen des Gaspreisanstiegs für die deutsche Industrie
Müller, Steffen - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 29 (2023) 1, pp. 10-14
Die Gaspreise haben sich in Deutschland infolge des Lieferstopps russischen Erdgases deutlich erhöht, mit möglichen Folgen für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Industrie. Wir berechnen den Gasverbrauch auf Produktebene für die Zeit vor der Energiekrise mit Hilfe der Mikrodaten der...
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