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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

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

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

Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency 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...

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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. …

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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants: a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration

Jasso, Guillermina; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - 2008

This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main …. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … can be attributed, however, to the fact that the skill price in Australia is lower than the U.S. skill price, so that …

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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D: An introduction based on the European experience

Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D forthcoming in …

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Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015

This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...

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HRM practices and performance of family-run workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS

Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2011

This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...

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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS

Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …

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