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A test of whether the enactment of a dedicated tax leads to higher payroll and wages for public employees, by means of survey results from the local mass-transit industry.
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An examination of capital policies in the public and private sector through analysis of the scrappage decisions of local mass-transit providers, showing that the structure of federal grants has a direct impact on scrappage rates that leads to shorter equipment life in the local public sector.
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A discussion of whether public outlays influence private investment, modeling the timing and effectiveness of public infrastructure as a local policy instrument.
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opportunism, remains the principle underlying all of contract law and company law." Ce texte explore l'emploi de l …
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reasonably well-developed economic literature. Reciprocal gain, the founding concept of contract and of extensions such as the … of contract law. Yet human nature being what it is, individuals may be tempted by opportunistic acts and their potential …
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I examine the case where fulfillment of a contractual commitment is only imperfectly verifiable and ask whether the court should then "tell the truth"" regarding the action in dispute. I show that truth seeking does not maximize the expected surplus from contractual relationships. From the...
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We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for … outsourcing. Adverse effects on compensation are clearest when companies substitute agency temporaries or contract company workers …, organizations only contract out management functions or utilize agency temporaries for brief periods of time, with little direct …
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In this paper, we consider a knowledge accumulation problem within an organization. We depart from the human capital theory initiated by Becker (1962, 1964) and consider an organization that cannot prevent the worker from quitting and using the knowledge outside the organization. We study how...
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Workers in flexible staffing arrangements - including temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract …
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Using a unique panel data set of privatised cement firms in Turkey, we test the hypothesis that privatisation and firm … relationship between privatisation and firm performance, we find that: i) private sector increases the output in the medium … of labour growth on productivity is less severe during the privatised period, and iv) the likelihood of the privatisation …
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