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Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?

Bryson, Alex - 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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Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export : A Real Option Approach

Naudé, Wim - 2013

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export …

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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...

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Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder : Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth

Voicu, Alexandru - 2021

dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …, similar shares of plants gradually move up and down the export ladder and changes in plants' relative position in the …

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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Campaner, Annika - 2018

variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …

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And I Will Try to Fix You : A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts

Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - 2011

This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...

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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model

Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...

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Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies : Evidence from Finland S Integration Plans

Pesola, Hanna; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2022

their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland s 1999 reform that introduced …

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