This analysis of intellectual property (IP) protection practices among mining equipment, technology and services suppliers (METS) in Chile's copper mining sector adds to a body of literature that has hitherto focused on high-income countries. It is based on data collated from an online survey of...

We examine the effects of working for a Temporary Help Agency (THA) on transition rates for low-skilled temps to alternative states, using Spanish administrative data. Our analysis, based on the estimation of competing risk discrete-time duration models with multiple spells, reveals the...

Cameroon is an example of a developing country where the transition from agriculture to services has defied standard patterns seen in developed countries. While prior research has explored this shift's impact on economic growth, its effects on women's representation in the labour market have...

This research note addresses the question of how permanent workers perceive their individual job security if their firm employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers. One the one hand, the core-periphery hypothesis predicts that permanent workers should have...

As a new service principal, service robots have been increasingly penetrating into service industries. However, it is still unclear whether robots should be introduced to replace or cooperate with human staff as a service principal. To explore into this issue, we establish models about four...

For China's urban industrial layout and green innovation, determining which types of producer service agglomeration externalities (PSAE) are most conducive to the rise of green innovation efficiency (GIE) has theoretical and practical relevance. Based on the panel data of 274 prefecture-level...

This study aims at determining the impact of liquidity and leverage on the performance of the Hotels and Entertainment Services Industry in the MENA region, using a sample of 71 selected publicly quoted firms in the cited industrial sector of the designated countries from the MENA region. A...