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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …

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High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David - 2019

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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Investment Grants and Firms' Productivity : How Effective is a Grant Booster Shot?

Alexandre, Fernando; Chaves, Miguel; Portela, Miguel - 2022

and their scores to firms' performance. Overall, our results show a positive and significant impact of an investment grant … granular analysis shows a strong impact of awarding a second grant to small-sized firms. However, we found no effect on micro …

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Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises : A Review

Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2020

We review the literature on financial constraints and the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We …

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of thedevelopment of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background ofthese individuals, their education,...

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A New Approach to Testing Marginal ProductivityTheory

Biewen, Martin; Weiser, Constantin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginalproducts. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify productionfunctions and to compare marginal products to factor payments. Our approach is based on asimple equation that directly...

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The Shift to Remote Work Lessens Wage-Growth Pressures

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2022

Blanchard (2022) highlights in his analysis of near- term inflation pressures. The amenity-values gains associated with the …

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Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...

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