Projects
Trade, firms and labour demand in manufacturing: firm performance and employment responses to import competition in South Africa. University of Antwerp
Next-generation family firm leaders and their impact on family firm performance Hasselt University
Family Firm Dysfunctional Behavior and Family Firm Performance Hasselt University
The Quest for Global Talent: (Top) Management Teams, Nationality Diversity, and Firm Performance Hasselt University
The impact of firm-specific employment protection on capital structure, performance and firm survival. KU Leuven
This project empirically explores the impact of firm-specific employment protection on several key issues in corporate finance: capital structure, firm performance and firm survival. These issues are studied within a large Belgian dataset including both SMEs and large firms. The project's main contributions are that:
- it uses firm-specific measures of employment protection, while most existing studies use a country-specific ...
Unpacking the impact of organizational age and wage diversity on firm performance KU Leuven
Workforce diversity in terms of age and wage is a critical challenge of increasing importance for firms. The aging population trend forces people to work longer, creating historically high levels of workforce age diversity. At the same time, because wage is a key incentive for employees, firm wage diversity remains a pertinent concern. How does this workforce age and wage diversity affect firm performance? This is the allencompassing ...
Payroll Tax Reductions: Incidence on Employment, Wages and Firm Performance. Ghent University
Creating jobs and supporting small businesses are popular policy objectives. Belgium’s permanent exemption of social security contributions for the first employee introduced in 2016 aims at achieving both objectives. Exploiting this unusually generous (and expensive) policy, this research project aims at understanding how workers and firms respond to permanent wage subsidies in the short as well as medium term. Building on a theoretical model ...