In this paper we empirically examine the impact of labor market flexibility on FDI flows to oil-rich GCC and compare it to middle income countries in 2006-2011. We account for potential endogeneity and nonstationarity and adopt system GMM and IV estimation methodologies. Our findings show that...

The authors examine workplace health and safety practices and workers' compensation claim management at some 450 Quebec firms in 1995. An analysis controlling for factors such as firm size and risk of injury finds that experience-rated employers - those whose workers' compensation insurance...

Utilizing provincial-level data from the period of 1994-2008, this paper studies the relationship between union density and wages, employment, productivity, and economic output in China. The findings indicate that union density does not affect average wage levels, but is positively associated...

Die unattraktiven Arbeitsbedingungen in der Sozialwirtschaft, für die eine geringe Tarifbindung und zum Teil zersplitterte Arbeitsbeziehungen kennzeichnend sind, werden oft als ein Grund für den zunehmenden Fachkräftemangel in der Branche genannt. Obwohl zahlreiche Strategien zur Aufwertung...

Die unattraktiven Arbeitsbedingungen in der Sozialwirtschaft, für die eine geringe Tarifbindung und zum Teil zersplitterte Arbeitsbeziehungen kennzeichnend sind, werden oft als ein Grund für den zunehmenden Fachkräftemangel in der Branche genannt. Obwohl zahlreiche Strategien zur Aufwertung...

The aim of this paper is to provide the first comprehensive study of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in the Spanish private sector. Based on a representative sample at national level of 9,086 salaried employees, drawn from the Quality of Life at Work Survey, we build three HRM bundles...

Contingency theory points out the adaptive management is crucial point to sustainable firm performance. This research aims to determine the relative importance of a set of variables comprising the four entrepreneurial management variables, i.e. strategic orientation, organization culture,...

Background/Purpose: Theory of Accountability or Theory A is argued to be the best tool for enhancing organizational performance in the 21st century due to the relevance of its motivational and controlling factors with changing competitive environment of organizational business. Objective: To...

Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship are among the most important prerequisites and concepts of modern economics and free market theory. Intrapreneurship is defined here in its broadest definition, as grades of entrepreneurship within a given system or entity, such as a company, organization,...

We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...