Search Results - subject:"Firm Level Data"

The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers : An Evaluation Study for Saxony

Fertig, Michael - 2004

This paper investigates whether and to what extent employment policy measures (co-) financed by the European Social Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is analyzed whether qualification programs for employed workers in the German state of Saxony were effective in terms of...

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Macroeconomic Crisis and Individual Firm Performance: The Mexican Experience

Watkins, Karen; van Dijk, Dick; Spronk, Jaap - 2004

This paper considers financial, operational, solvency, and performance ratios, in order to detect when there were balance sheets’ variations related to the 1994 Mexican currency crisis. Quarterly results for 88 non-financial Mexican companies that survived the crisis are used, and tests for...

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Foreign outsourcing and firm-level characteristics: evidence from Japanese manufacturers

Tomiura, Eiichi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2004

Based on micro data of 118,300 firms without firm-size thresholds covering all manufacturing industries in Japan, this paper investigates the foreign outsourcing, distinguished explicitly from domestic outsourcing, at the firm level. Less than three percent of the firms are outsourcing their...

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The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers – An Evaluation Study for Saxony

Fertig, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2004

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Macroeconomic Crisis and Individual Firm Performance: The Mexican Experience

Watkins, Karen; Dijk, Dick van; Spronk, Jaap - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

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Macroeconomic Crisis and Individual Firm Performance: The Mexican Experience

Watkins, Karen; Dijk, Dick van; Spronk, Jaap - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

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Macroeconomic crisis and individual firm performance : the Mexican experience

Fassler, Karen Watkins; Dijk, Dick van; Spronk, Jaap - 2004

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FIRM-LEVEL DATA IN THE MENA REGION: RESEARCH QUESTIONS, DATA REQUIREMENTS AND POSSIBILITIES

ATIYAS, IZAK - In: Middle East Development Journal (MEDJ) 03 (2011) 02, pp. 159-190

This paper presents an overview of research that uses firm-level data. The paper organizes the various areas of inquiry … where firm-level data are used under two broad headings. The first is the analysis of productivity, its evolution and … data that can be used to address them and to document availability of firm-level data in the MENA Region. …

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Tax Status and Tax Response Heterogeneity of Multinationals' Debt Finance

Buettner, Thiess; Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 67 (2011) 2, pp. 103-122

This paper analyzes how corporate taxation affects the capital structure of subsidiaries of multinational companies. The emphasis is on firm characteristics that proxy for the tax status of a subsidiary, which is crucial for the tax responsiveness of firms. Based on a comprehensive panel of...

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On the Genesis of Multinational Foreign Affiliate Networks

Egger, Peter; Fahn, Matthias; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) develop their networks of foreign affiliates gradually over time. Instead of exploring all profitable opportunities immediately, they first establish themselves in their home countries and then enter new markets stepwise. We argue that this behavior is driven by...

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