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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 …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database

Brown, J. David; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2024

, profitability, and owner aspirations – all linked to annual firm-level employment data since the firm hired its first employee …

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

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

paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two …

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Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022

We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...

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Globalization and Firm Performance

Catão, Luis A. V.; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023

-market participation having generally larger positive effects on productivity and negative effects on unit labor costs. All four channels …

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Trade Liberalization, Economic Activity, and Political Violence in the Global South: Evidence from PTAs

Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...

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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015

This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...

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Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Di Maio, Michele - 2017

To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...

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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...

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