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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Morgulis, Yana - 2015
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401752
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822646
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268767
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261556
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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008
academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact … individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor performers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268851
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761877
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Weichselbaumer, Doris; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566797
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Does Competition Enhance Performance or Cheating? A Laboratory Experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
academia have been partially explained by “competitive pressures”, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women’s cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703336