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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Going on the Long Race? - Employment Duration and (De)Regulation of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Bleich, Sabrina; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In our experiment long-term employment can result either from offering long-term contracts or from repeatedly and mutually opting for rematching....

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Wage Flexibility in Ongoing Employment Relations - An Experiment with a Stochastic Labor Market -

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Bleich, Sabrina; Gueth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Facing a stochastic market wage, which is independent of their own hiring policy, employers offer contracts specifying ï¬xed wage, revenue share and employment duration. In ongoing employment relations it depends on the treatment whether ï¬xed wages can be only increased or also decreased....

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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The e ect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - EconWPA - 2004

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...

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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...

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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

technology SMEs. Innovation net- works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation …This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

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