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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

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Firms' Exports, Volatility and Skills : Evidence from France

Bas, Maria - 2019

’ export activity and job stability across employment skills. Relying on detailed firm-level data from France for the period … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …

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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing : a firm-level investigation based on panel data

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2009

-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. -- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ; Productivity …This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …

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Firm Performance and Privatization in Ukraine

Grygorenko, Galyna - 2009

paper investigates the impact of privatization on Ukrainian firms' productivity. The empirical research is based on a sample … of 466 Ukrainian joint-stock enterprises for the period of 1997-1999. Estimation results indicate that privatization … positively influences labor productivity, sales and profitability, but also that these effects diminish over time …

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Productivity Effects of Business Process Outsourcing - A Firm-Level Investigation Based on Panel Data

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2010

-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques …This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198555

Firms' international status and heterogeneity in performance: Evidence from Italy

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2008

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

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Why Some Firms Export

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford - 2012

Traditional trade models focus on aggregate and industry flows and usually ignore firm level factors. This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U.S. manufacturing plants, we test for the role of plant characteristics, spillovers from...

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Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance : Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Girma, Sourafel - 2008

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. Comparing the cumulative distributions of the measures of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726672

Transition on the Shop Floor - the Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

Kollo, Janos - 2021

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows … sources and limits of productivity growth. The data suggests that the factory was not far from the competitive optimum given …

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