Substitution policies are strategies sometimes chosen in Sub-Saharan Africa for curtailing the shortage of health professionals especially caused by the outflow of medical personnel. The aim of our contribution is to propose a way to assess the merits and drawbacks of substitution policies by...

Substitution policies are strategies sometimes chosen in Sub-Saharan Africa for curtailing the shortage of health professionals especially caused by the outflow of medical personnel. The aim of our contribution is to propose a way to assess the merits and drawbacks of substitution policies by...

In this paper, we investigate whether an environmental tax reform 'cum' joint implementation (JI) provides employment and overall efficiency gains as compared to an environmental tax reform 'stand-alone' (ETR). We address this question in the framework of a large-scale general equilibrium model...

At the background of demographic change in gainful employment the paper analyses which challenges are faced to employ an ageing workforce productively and to foster the workability of older workers. In particular, the influence of working conditions on the age-specific workability in the spheres...

Die im Rahmen der Bekämpfung der COVID-19 Pandemie restriktiven Maßnahmen vieler Regierungen bewirkten eine Erhöhung der Telearbeitsquote. Auch in Österreich führte dies zu einem Anstieg, im April 2020 sogar stärker als im EU-Durchschnitt. Aktuell ist der Nutzen von Telearbeit gerade vor...

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in both 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we find evidence that high-performance...

"In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work...