To make the workers employed in changing and non-changing firms comparable in terms of observable characteristics, we rely on propensity score matching techniques (Rosenbaum and Rubin 1983).
Lending to them lags sharply behind lending to large firms, but over all, small firms in the largest Latin American economies use bank credit at rates comparable to firms in Asia and Eastern Europe; they just pay more for it, the report found.
This is so because I can only make firms comparable in terms of the observable characteristics included in the propensity score, while they might well differ in other non-observable dimensions, i.e., I can account for selection on observables but not for selection on unobservables.
"In Poland, in the Czech Republic, in Hungary, 60percentt of employees are working in small and medium size firms," he said, a share comparable to that of Western Europe.
The optimized Pt/MoS2 catalyst with ultralow Pt mass loading (∼2.2 wt%) presents exceptional HER performances in terms of low onset overpotential (31 mV), small Tafel slope (52 mV dec−1) and firm HER durability, which is comparable to the commercial Pt/C catalyst.
A 1999 survey of 60 UK venture capital firms was structured to be directly comparable to a 1991 study.
The literature recommends the use of multiple informants (Hogarth and Makridakis 1981) to overcome this problem; however some researchers report that CEOs of small firms provide reliable and valid data comparable to multiple informants (Zahra and Covin 1993).
Liam Griffin, the boss of Addison Lee, a large minicab firm, says minicabs have become more comparable to black cabs since 2004, when regulations and criminal-record checks were introduced.
This could add another 60 to 100 basis points to your tab, which would make it comparable to a brokerage firm's price tag.
In the near future, any organization that is not run to maximize sustainability performance would be considered a poorly managed organization, comparable to a private firm that could not turn a profit or a police department with a rising crime rate.
