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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets : Does the State of Development Matter?

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza D.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2021

This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model's parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...

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Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …

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Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries : The Colombian Case

García Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo - 2013

This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The geographic closeness is associated to social interactions. Individuals who are in physical and social...

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Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China

Ma, Yuanyuan - 2014

The "dual-track approach" for transition would have to be facilitated by an endogenous movement of workers away from the state into private jobs. Yet, using the Chinese Household Income Project Series (CHIPs) data for the year 2002, we document preferences and premiums for state jobs in urban...

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Earnings-Tenure Profiles:Tests of Agency and Human Capital TheoriesUsing Individual Performance Data

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...

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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...

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Earnings-Tenure Profiles : Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Jones, Derek C.; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Kato, Takao - 2021

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first...

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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …

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