Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the reasons and decision-making processes of heterogeneous firms’ bribery behavior, and how they will affect an aggregate economy’s development and corruption status. Design/methodology/approach: The authors build a dynamic model to study a...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine how the “wage premium,” the percentage by which wages earned by skilled workers exceed those of unskilled workers, varies across industries characterized by different levels of competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach: A theoretical model employing...

Purpose: This paper aims to study how firms’ longitudinal and dynamic growth will be affected by their bribing decisions to address the controversies existing in the extant literature on the impacts of briberies. Design/methodology/approach: The authors acquired information from Enterprise...

The study empirically examined the learning-by-exporting effect in Chinese manufacturing firms from 2005 to 2007. The traditional view has been that exporting can lead to increased productivity by facilitating access to the global market and, thus, information and cutting-edge technologies; this...

This paper empirically examines the major determinants of Chilean male and female employees' satisfaction. Two variables represent one's satisfaction with the workplace: having a full-time job and receiving a quality benefit package. We extract data from the 2009 National Employment Survey in...

Economists have paid much attention to economic development in Southeast Asia, where corruption and bribery are believed to be ubiquitous. In this article, we study the reasons why firms bribe. Specifically, we study the effects of the competition encountered by Southeast Asian firms on their...

This empirical research investigates how bribery by firms influences their development. We acquired the most recent firm-level data from four Latin American countries — Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru — and looked into the firms' innovation capability. We also used a translog function...

We analyze a fi rm's joint decision to export and invest using a model that incorporates the essential features of self-selection and learning-by-exporting theories of fi rm-level dynamics. We calibrate the model to 2002-07 Chilean manufacturing plant data and simulate it under different...

The purpose of our paper is to study the reasons and decision-making processes of heterogeneous firms' bribery behavior, and how they will affect an aggregate economy's development and corruption status. We build a dynamic model to study a firm's joint decision to bribe and invest, and how the...