Abstract This study aims to bridge the research on internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with literature initial public offerings (IPOs). It investigates how IPOs affect SMEs’ foreign investment decisions as they internationalize. We argue that enable SMEs engage in a period accelerated expansion, resulting wave-like pattern, suggested by Håkanson Kappen’s (J Int Bu...

Although past studies have found differences in clinical quality outcomes based on patients' insurance type, the extent of these discrepancies, underlying mechanisms supporting this relationship, and factors that can moderate effect not yet been addressed. We seek to fill gap by studying relationship between type using level care received, is, treatment intensity, as a mediator. Using agency th...

International study programmes are increasing in number worldwide, but little is known about the impact on local students' job prospects, especially a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics Netherlands, we analyse labour market outcomes of native graduates master Dutch universities between 2006 to 2014 within 5 years after graduation. A coarsened exact ma...

Abstract Background In China, achieving health equity has been regarded as a key issue for reform and development in the current context. It is well known that unemployment negative effect on health. However, few studies have addressed association between inequity health-related quality of life (HRQOL). This study aims to compare inequality HRQOL unemployed employed China. Methods The material ...

String matching is a basic theoretical problem in computer science, but has been useful in implementating various text editing tasks. The explosion of multimedia requires an appropriate generalization of string matching to higher dimensions. The rst natural generalization is that of seeking the occurrences of a pattern in a text where both pattern and text are rectangles. The last few years saw...

We examine how the introduction of monetary incentives by a knowledge-sharing platform affects nonrewarded knowledge activity on platform. Our setting is question-and-answer that provides for holding live talks. Using combination coarsened exact matching and difference-in-differences estimation techniques, we find launch paid feature creates positive spillover effect hosts’ free contributions, ...

At present, even if the education on hard-working spirit has been emphasized increasingly as an important part of practical in China’s policy, reality is still far from satisfactory, because many parents do not provide their children with sufficient opportunities to housework. Previous studies have indicated that empirical analysis remains be improved terms relationship between housework and de...