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Worker commitment and establishment performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment performance. An index of worker commitment is...

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Management practices and establishment performance under non-union workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bellmann, Lutz - 2020

This paper brings together two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance: advanced management practices and works councils. The country sample comprises nations where workplace representation is via a works council. The Management Questionnaire of the 2013 European Company Survey...

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Trust and workplace performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially measured using the individual survey respondent's...

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...

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Contract innovation in Germany : an economic evaluation of pacts for employment and competitiveness

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - In: BJIR : an international journal of employment relations 55 (2017) 3, pp. 500-526

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China's pure exporter subsidies

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - 2012

domestic market. A counterfactual analysis suggests that eliminating these subsidies would result in a welfare gain for China … comparable to halving its trade costs. -- trade policy ; export subsidies ; heterogeneous firms ; China …

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Protectionism through exporting : subsidies with export share requirements in China

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - 2016

We study the effect of subsidies subject to export share requirements (ESR) | that is, conditioned on a firm exporting at least a given fraction of its output - on exports, the intensity of competition and welfare, through the lens of a two-country model of trade with heterogeneous firms. Our...

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Spatial exporters

Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2011

In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...

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Gone for good? : subsidies with export share requirements in China ; 2002 - 2013

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - 2014

from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey collected by the World Bank for China. The … exporters, firms exporting all their output, observed in China, from 25.7% in 2002 to 11.1% in 2013. Our results indicate that a … in China increases by 1.76% while real income in the rest of the world falls by 0.59%. …

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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …

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