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Product Quality, Informality, and Child Labour
Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2011
economic activity across two sectors. The agrarian sector produces a homogeneous good and consists of informal firms employing … formal firms which employ only adult labour, whereas low-quality varieties are produced by informal firms which employ child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224869
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Employee Referral, Social Proximity and Worker Discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
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Rig Services and Taxation
Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2014
A long period of rig scarcity and high rates has led to innovation in the procurement of rig services and in relationships between oil companies and rig contractors. Discussions have been conducted on joint ventures between companies and contractors, for instance. This paper describes and...
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Innovation in the Supply and Procurement of Rig Services
Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2014
Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding contracts and organisation. This trend has been driven by the fact that rising costs over many years have put profitability under pressure. On the basis of theory and available...
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Technological Regimes in the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Investigation
Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - CESifo - 2013
The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000 … consider contrasts between SM-I and SM-II for the totality of firms, one observes discernible differences in the case of two … hypotheses: the share of small firms is higher in SM-I industries than in SM-II industries and in SM-I industries, profit rates …
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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2013
to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to produce multiple products, and decide when to enter a market, followed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670793
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
information maximum likelihood using two unbalanced panels of Dutch and French manufacturing firms from three waves of the …
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Estimated U.S. Manufacturing Production Capital and Technology Based on an Estimated Dynamic Economic Model
Chen, Baoline; Zadrozny, Peter A. - CESifo - 2005
manufacturing and compare the estimates with those reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765979
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Sources of the German Productivity Demise – Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment
Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007
While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany’s productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany’s productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181228
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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008
productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406424