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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Murtin, Fabrice - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
Forth, John - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923226
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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Bryson, Alex - 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986766
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Innovation and Smes Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … firms designated as innovative SMEs by the government are not performing differently than general firms. Only the CEO … considered to actively promote SMEs innovativeness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029129
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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class
Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023
This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in...
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja - 2013
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073860
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765301
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium : Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel S.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021
highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316869
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries.We find substantial heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046258