How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability?
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Data de Publicação: | 2013 |
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Resumo: | The purpose of this dissertation is to study whether and to what extent dismissal laws affect firm profitability. To achieve this goal, a within-country analysis was conducted into U.S. firms that were affected by the passage of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1989 (the WARN Act) in the years between 1980 and 2000. The results show that the introduction of such dismissal law had a positive and statistically significant impact on firm profitability. Furthermore, this effect was particularly pronounced for those firms that invested in R&D expenditure. |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability?Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoThe purpose of this dissertation is to study whether and to what extent dismissal laws affect firm profitability. To achieve this goal, a within-country analysis was conducted into U.S. firms that were affected by the passage of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1989 (the WARN Act) in the years between 1980 and 2000. The results show that the introduction of such dismissal law had a positive and statistically significant impact on firm profitability. Furthermore, this effect was particularly pronounced for those firms that invested in R&D expenditure.Conti, RaffaeleVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaGama, Miguel Yum2013-07-03T13:23:15Z2013-04-3020132013-04-30T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/11846TID:201090600enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-09-26T01:40:57Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/11846Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:09:36.404603Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? Gama, Miguel Yum Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? |
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How do dismissal laws affect firm profitability? |
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Gama, Miguel Yum |
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Gama, Miguel Yum |
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Conti, Raffaele Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
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Gama, Miguel Yum |
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Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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The purpose of this dissertation is to study whether and to what extent dismissal laws affect firm profitability. To achieve this goal, a within-country analysis was conducted into U.S. firms that were affected by the passage of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1989 (the WARN Act) in the years between 1980 and 2000. The results show that the introduction of such dismissal law had a positive and statistically significant impact on firm profitability. Furthermore, this effect was particularly pronounced for those firms that invested in R&D expenditure. |
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