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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido - 2016

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries.We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

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Assessing the impact of university science parks on research productivity : exploratory firm-level evidence from the United Kingdom

Siegel, Donald S.; Westhead, Paul; Wright, Mike - In: International journal of industrial organization 21 (2003) 9, pp. 1357-1369

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Persistence of innovative activities, sectoral patterns of innovation and international technological specialization

Malerba, Franco - In: International journal of industrial organization 15 (1997) 6, pp. 801-826

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Does innovation stimulate employment? : a firm-level analysis using comparable micro-data from four European countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - In: International journal of industrial organization 35 (2014), pp. 29-43

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Is there persistence in innovative activities?

Cefis, Elena - In: International journal of industrial organization 21 (2003) 4, pp. 489-515

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Global engagement and the innovation activities of firms

Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - In: International journal of industrial organization 28 (2010) 2, pp. 191-202

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An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment : Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector

Clayton, Tony - 2009

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole …-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we … could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second …

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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …

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