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Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015

We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...

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Managerial practices and students' performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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Teacher assessments versus standardized tests : is acting "girly" an advantage?

Di Liberto, Adriana; Casula, Laura - 2016

We study if Italian teachers do apply gender discrimination when judging students. To this aim, we use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the availability of both teachers (non-blind) and standardized test (blind) scores in math and language that Italian students receive during...

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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …

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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? : results from a survey experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - 2010

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …

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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Closing the gender profit gap?

Batista, Catia; Sequeira, Sandra; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021

We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the performance of female-led microenterprises in Mozambique. We find evidence that both interventions can improve business performance but the effects are highly heterogeneous....

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Microentrepreneurship in developing countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...

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When does HRM 'work' in small British enterprises?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...

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