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Reassessing the Productivity Impact of Employee Involvement and Financial Incentives
Wolf, Elke; Zwick, Thomas - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 60 (2008) 2, pp. 160-181
Employee involvement and financial incentives are often praised as effective means for increasing firm productivity. We … assess the productivity effects of these human resource practices by accounting for the main sources of estimation bias … employee involvement raises establishment productivity, but financial incentive systems do not. An important result is that …
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From Open-Access to Individual Quotas: Disentangling the Effects of Policy Reform and Environmental Changes in the Norwegian Coastal Cod Fishery
Diekert, Florian; Lund, Kristen; Schweder, Tore - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2014
Understanding the eect of introducing property rights to natural resources is central in economics, but empirical analysis is frustrated by the complexity of socioecological systems. We construct a detailed bio-economic model of the Norwegian coastal cod shery, which was closed after 1989, to...
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The "Invisible Role" of Business Groups is made Evident
Rungi, Armando - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2013) May
coordination reveal to be important drivers of productivity and dominate on choices of vertical integration. More in general, here … explain the endurance of productivity gaps across industries and countries and the phenomenon of Business Groups becomes even …
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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance
Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
complexity and productivity which dominates the already known correlation between vertical integration and productivity. Results …
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Direct Foreign Investments and Productivity Growth in Hungarian Firms, 1992-1999
Sgard, Jérôme - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2001
The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel …. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP …. Finally, State ownership implies lower levels of productivity, but does not hinder the capacity to respond to market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892172
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Direct Foreign Investments and Productivity Growth in Hungarian Firms, 1992-1999
Sgard, Jérôme - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2001
The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel …. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP …. Finally, State ownership implies lower levels of productivity, but does not hinder the capacity to respond to market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756520
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Outsourcing with Heterogeneous Firms
Bakhtiari, Sasan - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2011
A general framework for the study of outsourcing is introduced that incorporates dynamics and heterogeneity among both upstream and downstream producers to mimic an exit approach (Hirschman, 1970) to building vertical relations. The environment is one of search friction and incomplete contracts,...
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International Trade and Local Outsourcing
Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei; Xu, Xinpeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
outsourcing due to the capital cost effect and the scale effect. We also unveil one source of productivity and formalize a link … between trade and productivity. We illustrate that both the scale effect and the flourish of entrepreneurial talent due to … capital cost effect contribute to the improvement of productivity. For the import competing sector the productivity effect and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559019
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Labour Reallocation, Relative Prices and Productivity
Cao, Shutao; Leung, Danny - Bank of Canada - 2010
most recent data available. It examines the determinants of these flows and their relationship with the productivity growth …, shifts of employment labour between industries have generally not contributed positively to aggregate labour productivity … rates within industries are found to be strongly related to multifactor productivity and labour productivity growth at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513266
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Production, Productivity and Technological Changes in Indian Spinning Sector
Bedi, Jatinder S. - In: Indian Economic Review 38 (2003) July, pp. 205-233
on the efficiency and productivity of spindles. The methodology used here is different than the traditional production … shows the changes in productivity of working spindles. The productivity analysis along with the state of spinning industry …
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