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We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …
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environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment …
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We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this …
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results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
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This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …
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Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
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evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
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in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …
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productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favour of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …
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In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs...
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