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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap

Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...

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New infrastructures for knowledge production : understanding E-science

Hine, Christine (contributor) - 2006

This book offers a distinctive understanding of new infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and … -- Cyberinfrastructure for next generation scholarly publishing / Michael Nentwich -- On web structure and digital knowledge bases : online …

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …

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Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy

Gans, Joshua S.; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in … increasing the rate of entrepreneurial innovation. …

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The Real Effects of Private Equity Buyouts

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Private equity buyouts have become a common element in the industrial development process. I survey the literature on the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to marginally fall after a buyout in most countries studied, with...

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Information technology entrepreneurship and innovation

Zhao, Fang - 2008

understanding of knowledge dynamics of innovation in business networks / Alexandra Steinburg -- … : an Islamic perspective / Muhammad Mohtsham Saeed -- 16. Supporting innovation through knowledge management in the …"This book presents current studies on the nature, process and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation in the …

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