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The developing countries multiply incentive policies to attract foreign direct investment, to benefit from positive effects of "spillovers".. The objective of our paper is to check first whether the impact of these flows is automatic or otherwise requires a number of conditions within the host...
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We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the period 1999-2006. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant unobserved workplace...
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity...
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The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that the groups of women and part-timers generate employer...
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Since Brazilian data sets for consumption and asset returns are short and the standard GMM-based overidentifying … restrictions test has low power in small samples, a GMM approach imposes difficulties to the evaluation of asset pricing kernels …-Leibler Information Criterion (KLIC). The goal is to compare the traditional GMM method with the alternative information …
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dependent variable we adopt a specification based on infrequency of purchase. GMM estimators are used to deal with errors in …
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, employing the generalized method of moments (GMM) technique within the French context. Grounded in the theories of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine if the simultaneous openness to trade and capital account can promote financial sector development. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a sample of 12 Arab countries over the period from 1985 to 2011, the data were analyzed using the...
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