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Research Scientist Productivity and Firm Size: Evidence from Panel Data on Inventors [PDF]
It has long been recognized that worker wages and possibly productivity are higher in large firms. Moreover, at least since Schumpeter (1942) economists have been interested in the relative efficiency of large firms in the research and development ...
Jinyoung Kim, Sangjoon Lee
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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What Drives the Volatility of Firm Level Productivity in China?
Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2015 The enterprise reforms of the 1990s profoundly changed the structure of the economy in China. Using a fi rm-level dataset collected annually during the period of 1998–2007, this paper examines the variation of productivity volatility across fi rms of ...
Xubei Luo, Nong Zhu
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity Change in the U.S. Hog Industry [PDF]
The U.S. hog industry has experienced dramatic structural changes and rapid increases in farm productivity. A stochastic frontier analysis is used to measure hog enterprise total factor productivity (TFP) growth between 1992 and 2004 and to decompose ...
Key, Nigel D. +2 more
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Why leadership matters for micro and small firms in the East Midlands? [PDF]
, 2019 This report was produced with data and assistance from East Midlands Chamber of Commerce and is being made available to business organisations in the East Midlands.This report highlights the importance of micro- and small firms in the East Midlands ...
Rae, David
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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DETERMINATION OF RESERVES FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION [PDF]
Economy and Sociology, 2016 The paper evidences the essence of land potential in agriculture as well as the methodology of determining the potential levels of land fertility during the production of different crop types based on an example of an existing agricultural enterprise ...
Tatiana DUDOGLO
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Global Engagement and the Innovation Activities of Firms [PDF]
Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than their purely domestic counterparts. To better understand this correlation, we incorporate the perspective of industrial organization that ...
Chiara Criscuolo +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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