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Aging, Labor Turnover and Firm Performance
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika - 2007
decomposition methods frequently used for measuring micro-level sources of industry productivity growth. By using comprehensive … linked employer-employee data from the Finnish business sector, we study the productivity and wage effects, and hence the …
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Occupational entry regulations and their effects on productivity in services : firm-level evidence
Bambalaite, Indre; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Rueden, … - 2020
This paper assesses the possible dynamic effects of occupational entry regulations (OER) on productivity. It combines … firm-level productivity data with a new cross-country policy indicator measuring the stringency of OER by the presence of … contribution of personal and professional services to aggregate productivity growth via two channels: the acceleration of their …
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The superstar effect in Tennis : a within-match analysis
Creutzburg, Carsten - 2024
This study is the first to investigate the superstar effect on professional men's tennis players' situational performance, employing novel serve and return ratings. We innovate by examining the impact of superstars on the performance of both higher-ranked (HR) and lower-ranked (LR) players. We...
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Does mobility increase the productivity of inventors?
Hoisl, Karin - 2007
Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has neglected the differences in gains from a move between high...
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Does the mobility of R & D labor increase innovation?
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2013
We investigate the effect of mobility of highly skilled workers in Denmark on the total patenting activity of the firms involved for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents how workers joining increase firms' patenting activity. The effect is...
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The Protection of Proprietary Information and Forced CEO Turnover
Lin, Yupeng - 2020
We examine the effect of protection of proprietary information on forced CEO turnover decisions. Relying on changes in the enforceability of the covenant-not-to-compete, we show that strengthening the protection of proprietary information increases the likelihood of forced CEO turnover and the...
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Evaluating Pension Portability Reforms: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a Natural Experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006
This paper uses the Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a natural experiment to evaluate the job mobility response of prime-aged US employees participating in employer sponsored defined benefit pension plans to a reduction in the vesting period for pension rights accrual. We apply...
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States : 1968-1993
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
understanding a number of issues in macro and labor economics, including changes in wage inequality, productivity, life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261866
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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth : key labor market institutions, and the policies that shape them, affect the restructuring that leads to...
Henrekson, Magnus - 2014
Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416306
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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth : key labor market institutions, and the policies that shape them, affect the restructuring that leads to...
Henrekson, Magnus - 2019
Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139466