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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
temporary employment employment protection labour demand firm-level data
2012/10/19
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed,
cross-country research on firms?demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies
indicate that workload ...
Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
micro and small enterprises credit constraints risk risk aversion firm growth Peru
2012/10/22
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but...
Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms
labour contract fixed-term contract indefinite-term contract production frontier
2012/10/18
The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 emplo...
The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
innovation financing capital structure business start-ups KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel Germany
2012/10/18
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are ...
How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
immigration endogenous technological change firm structure
2012/10/17
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expa...
Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
firm heterogeneity monopolistic competition economic policies and welfare
2012/10/22
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory o...
Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
foreign experts export immigrants productivity difference-in-differences matching
2012/10/23
While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up ...
Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness...
Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?
exports foreign direct investments productivity services firms
2012/10/23
This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investmen...
Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data
family firms wages job security compensating wage differentials linked employer-employee data
2012/10/26
We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average...
Surviving the Crisis: Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland
financial crisis firm survival Ireland
2012/10/25
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the beha...
Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?
wage dispersion labour productivity personnel economics matched employer-employee panel data
2012/10/26
This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for...
We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, and...
Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
incentives wage setting equity gift exchange reciprocity incomplete contracts organizational economics laboratory experiments
2012/10/30
In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with ...
Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
Roma labor discrimination Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition taste theory statistical theory occupational segregation
2012/10/30
In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area Study random sample (2007-08) drawn from 16 multiethnic municipalities in which R...