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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; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …

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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG … reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the conflict of interest between the controlling and the minority owners … limited success to improve indices of firm performance in our sample. We argue that this arises from the predatory behavior of …

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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the …

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Who Leaves and Who Returns?Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selectionfrom a Developing Country

Akee, Randall K. Q. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack ofinformation on the immigrants´ labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting whois allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civilstrife in the home...

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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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Happiness and economic growth: does the cross section predict time trends? ; evidence from developing countries

Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 2009

Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...

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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal...

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Firing regulations and firm size in the developing world: Evidence from differential enforcement

Almeida, Rita K.; Susanli, Z. Bilgen - 2011

This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in countries with very different de jure firing...

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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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