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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene - 2001
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
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Labor market dynamics when effort depends on wage growth comparisons
De la Croix, David; Palm, Franz C.; Urbain, Jean-Pierre - 1996
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Project monitoring and banking competition under adverse selection
Kanniainen, Vesa; Stenbacka, Rune - 1998 - Revised version
We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...
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Neo-classical demand for labour functions for six major economies
Symons, J.; Layard, R. - 1983
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Law enforcement and criminality : Europe vs. USA
Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 1999
We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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Management practices, workforce selection and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016
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The returns to scarce talent : footedness and player remuneration in European soccer
Bryson, Alex; Frick, Bernd; Simmons, Robert - 2009
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Arbeitsrechtliche Hemmnisse für die Anreizwirkung flexibler Entgeltsysteme
Oechsler, Walter A. - 2001
Wage flexibility is often considered to be caused by the highly regulated labor market and the rigid system of labor law existing in Germany, especially in the field of wage determination. In this paper the impact of existing labor agreements on incentive systems in Germany is analyzed. It...
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Die relative Bezahlung der Hochqualifizierten in Staat und Privatwirtschaft : Deutschland, 1977 - 2011
Corneo, Giacomo - 2013
Dieser Beitrag schildert die Entwicklung der relativen Bezahlung der Hochqualifizierten in Staat und Privatwirtschaft in Westdeutschland seit 1977. Es zeigt sich, dass seit ca. 1987 die relative Bezahlung der Hochqualifizierten im öffentlichen Dienst im Vergleich zur Privatwirtschaft massiv...
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