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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

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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. …

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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life

Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010

help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

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Tournament incentives in the field: gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …

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Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development.

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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....

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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...

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