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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market

Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010

Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...

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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entryand Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault; Scarpetta, Stefano - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creativedestruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping thisprocess, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms´ decision to enter, to expandif successful and to exit if...

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Mentoring and Segregation:Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using alarge longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor femaleemployees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do...

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Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes?The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

McKenzie, David J.; Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the countrywith the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firmsenables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations thatcan affect...

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Internal Adjustment Costs of Firm-Specific Factors and the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm

Chetty, V. K.; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper considers the consequences of a two-sector vertically-integrated model of firms producing output using firm-specific capital with a second sector producing firm-specific capital by adapting raw capital purchased in the market. Analysts rarely observe each sector separately....

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Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On

MacLeod, W. Bentley; Malcomson, James - 2023

"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract...

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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - 2013

This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...

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