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61 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14082
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13981
Managerial Performance of a Female-Owned and Home-Based Firm
Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo, Katarzyna Platt, Hyoung Suk Shim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13738
Financial Distress and the Role of Management in Micro and Small-Sized Firms
Fernando Alexandre, Sara Cruz, Miguel Portela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13526
Minimum Wage and Financially Distressed Firms: Another One Bites the Dust
Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Hélder Costa, Miguel Portela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13014
The Effect of Immigration on Business Dynamics and Employment
Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, Alexander Abraham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12936
Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review
Sasan Bakhtiari, Robert Breunig, Lisa Magnani, Jacquelyn Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12598
Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?
Alex Bryson, John Forth, Helen Gray, Lucy Stokes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12325
The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli, Daniel Verch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12042
Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics
Olga Demidova, Alena Kolyagina, Francesco Pastore
published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55: 244-258.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12035
Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector
David Audretsch, Marian Hafenstein, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12009
Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil
Peter Brummund, Laura Connolly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11697
The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Dany Bahar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11662
High-Growth Entrepreneurship
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee
forthcoming as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11598
Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data
Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoit Dostie, Robert Gagné, Jonathan Paré
forthcoming in: Canadian Journal of Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11399
The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
John Forth, Alex Bryson
published as 'Management practices and SME performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, First published 28 February 2019, https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11103
The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View
Jolanda Hessels, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10570
The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10042
What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Alex Bryson, John Forth
published as 'Management Practices and SME Performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, first published 28 February 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9914
Minimum Wages and Firm Value
Brian Bell, Stephen Machin
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36, 159-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9806
Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
Steffen Müller, Renate Neubäumer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9734
The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?
Julian Baumann, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (6), 1263–1274
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9463
The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Italy
Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Davide Vannoni
forthcoming in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9262
Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey
Derya Findik, Aysit Tansel
published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8416
Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Emin Dinlersoz, Jeremy Greenwood, Henry R. Hyatt
published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70(3): 733-766
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8237
Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance
Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7851
The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Almas Heshmati
Published in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2015, 23(3), 407-421.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7678
Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007
Pierpaolo Parrotta, Nina Smith
published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2015, 1-23.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7613
Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes
Pierpaolo Parrotta, Nina Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7519
Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship
Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2015, 16 (5) 482-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7277
Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun
published in: Energy Economics, 2014, 45, 491-500.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7241
Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7146
Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Sascha O. Becker, Hans K. Hvide
forthcoming as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7050
Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, 47 (3), 223-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044
Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
Revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6875
Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 55-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731
Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag
Revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6635
Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, Julie M. Wulf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6381
Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner
published in: Contemporary Economics, 2014, 8 (1), 25-49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6211
Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms
Benjamin Fomba Kamga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6109
Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek
published in revised form in: S. Beugelsdijk , S. Brakman, H. van Ees and H. Garretsen (eds.), Firms in the International Economy - Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business, MIT-Press 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5975
Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?
Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(3), 204-222
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5541
Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek
published in revised form in: Open Economies Review, 2013, 24 (5), 963-976
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5458
Job Creation by Firms in Denmark
Rikke Ibsen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5423
Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1172-1191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5387
Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries
Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek
published in revised form in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22 (1), 170-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5225
Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 310-319
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4578
Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
Eric Bartelsman, John C. Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta
published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 305-334
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4568
Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner
published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4531
Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm Performance? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES Program
Pablo Fajnzylber, William F. Maloney, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4526
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12(2), 492-521
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