In many practical cases one has to choose an arrangement of different objects so that they are compatible. Whenever the compatibility of the objects can be checked by a pair-wise comparison the problem can be moddeled using the graph-theoretic notion of cliques.

This paper studies the way workers and firms behaved in a highly cyclical sector such as the cotton textile industry, which encompassed 1/5 of the Catalan industrial workforce in the early 20th century. Using firm level evidence from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the paper shows that,...

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certaininstitutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad foreconomic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good businessenvironment which is considered to...

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...

This exploratory paper investigates why some companies appear to find successful business relationshipsrelatively effortless. It seems that the organisation’s search for and utilisation of key resources canguarantee its success in the market place. The paper incorporates a critique of...

Übersichtsänderungen über die Steuerrechtsänderungen seit 1964

In der Debatte über aktuelle globale Wirtschaftstrends mit ihrem Bezug auf grenzüberschrei-tende Wirtschaftsaktivitäten wird häufig auf die relativ junge internationale Organisation, die Welthandelsorganisation (WTO), in der die Freiheit des Welthandels ausgeweitet und regu-liert wird,...