Showing 1 - 10 of 9,443
This paper examines the relationship between the psychic distance of decision makers in SMEs from specific foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126550
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015271770
The introduction to the Special Issue on economic elites in Central Eastern Europe establishes a common understanding of elite research and the development of capitalism in Central Eastern Europe as developed during the 1990s. Since then, the composition of elites has been lost sight of by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771546
In 2010, both the EU and euro zone registered economic growth, mainly due to Germany's performance. Seen as a whole, the German economy grew stronger last year than in the last two decades, so that, for most sectors, 2010 brought gains despite experts’ negative forecasts. This positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421501
This article describes the level of digital integration of SMEs in Germany. For this purpose, it takes into account the … share of selected digital technologies in the business activities of German SMEs. The article also explains advantages and … barriers to digital integration and provides an evaluation of selected national framework conditions on the part of SMEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603855
Using data from the first eleven waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel this study investigates the dynamic effects of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000995819
Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less productive than their correctly allocated colleagues. However, the results obtained in the present study contradict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001562041
Using data from the first eleven waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel this study investigates the dynamic effects of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184369
In this paper, we provide new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism using the Workplace Employee Survey (WES) 1999-2002 from Statistics Canada. Our paper extends the typical labour-leisure model used to analyze the decision to skip work to include firm-level policy variables relevant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027837
Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284019