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Making (small) firms happy : the heterogeneous effect of trade facilitation measures
Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2016
margin) and (iii) average export value per product exported (product intensive margin). We find strong evidence of a …
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Export-led growth after COVID-19: the case of Portugal
Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020
particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export …-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify viable export opportunities: one of the consequences of the COVID-19 … pandemic is to have closed and shrunk export opportunities globally. Despite this we show that there are still significant …
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The effects of size-based regulation on small firms : evidence from VAT threshold
Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; Rauhanen, Timo - 2016
There is only limited evidence of how small firms respond to size-based regulations applied in various countries. We study this question by examining the value-added tax (VAT) threshold in Finland. We find sizable bunching of firms in the sales distribution just below the exemption threshold,...
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Job growth in early transition : comparing two paths
Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...
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Supply chain finance and SMEs : evidence from international factoring data
Auboin, Marc; Smythe, Harry; Teh, Robert - 2016
The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably through their involvement into supply-chains. With supply-chains shifting and expanding into new regions of the world, the challenge for SMEs to accessing financing remains an...
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When does HRM 'work' in small British enterprises?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016
Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different...
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Taking the leap : the determinants of entrepreneurs hiring their first employee
Fairlie, Robert W.; Miranda, Javier - 2016
Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through...
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Direct and indirect effects of subsidized dual apprenticeships
Crépon, Bruno; Premand, Patrick - 2019
Traditional apprenticeships based on private arrangements are widespread in developing countries. Public interventions have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand access or improve training quality. Subsidized dual apprenticeships have the potential to address...
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