Trade Credit and Temporary Employment How Companies Respond to Capital and Labor Market Frictions /

• Main Author: Nielen, Sebastian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Contributions to Management Science,
• Subjects: Finance.; Personnel management.; Econometrics.; Industrial organization.; Labor economics.; Finance, general.; Industrial Organization.; Human Resource Management.; Labor Economics.

This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance. Two different kinds of performance measures are considered, namely innovation performance and firm performance. The author focuses on...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Product Innovation, Credit Constraints, and Trade Credit: Evidence from a Cross-Country Study
• Product Innovation and Trade Credit Demand and Supply: Evidence from European Countries
• Temporary Agency Work and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from German manufacturing firms
• Productivity in German manufacturing firms: Does fixed-term employment matter?
• Summary and Future Research.