. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management and the knowledge and span of control of each agent. As a result, in the … mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce … that, as a result of a bilateral trade liberalization, firms that export will increase the number of layers of management …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to … as identical prospects irrespective of starting position. We find that this is not necessarily the mobility pattern which …

local unemployment growth is high---overall, negative home equity is not an important barrier to labor mobility. …

In this paper we provide a comparative analysis of the extent and determinants of labour mobility in the Czech Republic … during 1994-1998. Our analysis is motivated by the fact that labour mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of … experiencing the most mobility and the more positive directions of mobility. The existing problems of inadequate restructuring …

determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment …

' incentives to share information about borrowers are positively related to the mobility and heterogeneity of borrowers, to the …, the United Kingdom and the United States, where the geographical mobility of households is high and the consumer credit … market is deep; while in countries with low mobility and thin consumer credit markets, e.g. Belgium and Italy, information …

mobility and salaries show, on the contrary, substantial positive effects of quantity, independent of quality. We test various …

contract interpretation, while US regional labour markets are characterized by high regional mobility, rendering insurance less …