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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe : Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Bruno, Randolph - 2014

focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and …

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Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N. F. - 2011

lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other …

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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2012

sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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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 …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …

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Competition and Gender Prejudice : Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Weber, Andrea - 2009

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004 : Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - 2021

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...

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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Cuñat, Vicente - 2014

: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …

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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency : Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2021

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...

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