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Wages, Productivity and Corporate Management

Myro, Rafael L - 2019

This paper investigates the effect of corporate management quality, measured complexly, on the productivity and wages of industrial firms. The results indicate that companies which are better managed offer superior remuneration to their employees, perhaps as a mechanism for retaining talent, or...

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Exports, Productivity and Factor Intensity : Evidence for Brazilian Firms

Casagrande, Dieison Lenon - 2019

Based on the theory of heterogeneous firms, participation in the international market leads to changes in performance …

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The Growth and Human Capital Structure of New Firms Over the Business Cycle

Brixy, Udo - 2016

Recent research suggests that employment in young firms is more negatively impacted during economic downturns than employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We complement prior research that is mostly based on...

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A Structural Model of Indigenous Innovation and Catch-Up for Developing Economies

Howell, Anthony - 2016

This paper introduces an extended structural innovation model à la Crépon et al. (1998), adapted to study empirically the process of indigenous innovation and catch-up in a developing economy context. Specifically, three key extensions to the original model are introduced in order to study how...

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Small Businesses and Small Business Finance During the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession : New Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

Kennickell, Arthur B. - 2015

We use the Federal Reserve's 2007, 2009 re-interview of 2007 respondents, and 2010 Surveys of Consumer Finances (SCFs) to study how small businesses owned and actively managed by households fared during those turbulent years. Even though the surveys contain extensive data on a broad...

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Industrial Policy at Work : Evidence from Romania's Income Tax Break for Workers in IT

Manelici, Isabela - 2020

We study the firm and sector-level effects of an industrial policy designed to support the development of the IT sector in Romania. In 2001, Romania introduced an unexpected personal income tax break to programmers with eligible bachelor's degrees and who work on software development for firms...

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The Optimal Allocation of Current Assets Using Mean-Variance Analysis

Kolias, Georgios - 2020

modeling on panel data while in the second stage mean-variance analysis is employed. Findings: By applying the model in the …

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Women Owning Small Firms in India : Analysing Social and Cultural Diversity

Nikaido, Yuko - 2020

female entrepreneurs affects firm performance at different stages of entrepreneurial activity. The empirical results from a … quantile regression reveal a significant variation in the growth performance of women-owned firms. First, while Muslim women, a … better than those owned by Hindu women. Second, in the case of women from lower castes, although firm performance at the …

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance

Elert, Niklas - 2020

entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement … entrepreneurial incomes, there is no effect on firm survival …

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Digitalization to Improve Tax Compliance : Evidence from Vat e-Invoicing in Peru

Bellon, Matthieu - 2019

This paper examines the impact of e-invoicing on firm tax compliance and performance using administrative tax data and …

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