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How Does Labour Work Now? A Quantitative Survey of Labour Practices in Japanese Multinationals Post 1996 Workplace Relations Act (Commonwealth)

Bayari, Celal - 2001

The focus of this paper is the labour practices that are identified with Japanese management style and their functioning in Australian subsidiaries of Japanese MNEs. The context of their functioning is the changes in labour and management relations in Australia. The data used in this paper was...

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The Japanese Management and Production System in Australia Recruitment, Training and Bonus in Japanese Hybrid Factories

Bayari, Celal - 2011

Japanese manufacturers have reconstituted the Japanese management and production system in Australia at different levels of success since the late 1960s (Hutchinson and Nicholas 1994, Nicholas and Purcell 2001, Purcell et al. 1999). Three of the essential elements of the Japanese system,...

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Being numerous does not yield efficiency - Productivity and entry-exit determinants in European business services

Kox, Henk L.M.; Van Leeuwen, George; Van der Wiel, Henry - 2011

The paper investigates whether the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry is related … productivity frontier and so obtain the distance of firms to the productivity frontier, using detailed industry-level panel data … distance with the productivity frontier. We find that that most scale advantages are exhausted after reaching a size of 20 …

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Not all price endings are created equal: Price points and asymmetric price rigidity

Levy, Daniel; Snir, Avichai; Gotler, Alex; Chen, Haipeng - 2019

We document an asymmetry in the rigidity of 9-ending prices relative to non-9-ending prices. Consumers have difficulty noticing higher prices if they are 9-ending, or noticing price-increases if the new prices are 9-ending, because 9-endings are used as a signal for low prices. Price setters...

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If You Think 9-Ending Prices Are Low, Think Again

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - 2019

9-ending prices are a dominant feature of many retail settings, which according to the existing literature, is because consumers perceive them as being relatively low. Are 9-ending prices really lower than comparable non 9-ending prices? Surprisingly, the empirical evidence on this question is...

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If You Think 9-Ending Prices Are Low, Think Again

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - 2019

9-ending prices, which comprise between 40%–95% of retail prices, are popular because shoppers perceive them as being low. We study whether this belief is justified using scanner price-data with over 98-million observations from a large US grocery-chain. We find that 9-ending prices are higher...

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NCC Productivity Statement 2019

Papa, Javier - 2019

Productivity growth is critical for enterprise competitiveness, economic growth, the financing of public services and … ultimately improvements of living standards through sustainable wage levels. Aggregate labour productivity figures for Ireland … specific sectors (e.g. ICT, Pharma-Chemicals, Food & Beverages) which continue to show productivity levels well above the Euro …

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Retail pricing format and rigidity of regular prices

Ray, Sourav; Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - 2023

We study the price rigidity of regular and sale prices, and how it is affected by pricing formats (i.e., pricing strategies). We use data from three large Canadian stores with different pricing formats (Every-Day-Low-Price, Hi-Lo, and Hybrid) that are located within a 1 km radius of each other....

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From the Phased Manufacturing Programme to Frugal Engineering: Some Initial Propositions

Tyabji, Nasir - 2015

Although the structural reforms, initiated in 1991, did not lead to any appreciable increase in either the efficiency or the export orientation of Indian manufacturing firms, unexpectedly, there has been a visible improvement in manufacturing design capabilities in certain segments, for...

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Corruption, efficiency wage and union leadership

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Ghosh Dastidar, Krishnendu - 2014

This paper develops a model of determination of unionized wage in the presence of both collective bargaining and efficiency wage. The efficiency of each worker is positively related to both the wage and the unemployment rate in the economy. The unionized wage is greater than the efficiency wage....

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