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Labour market screening with intermediaries
Schweinzer, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We consider a Rothschild-Stiglitz-Spence labour market screening model and employ a centralised mechanism to coordinate the efficient matching of workers to firms. This mechanism can be thought of as operated by a recruitment agency, an employment office or head hunter. In a centralised...
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Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device
Brown, Martin; Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
When workers are faced with the threat of unemployment, their relationship with a particular firm becomes valuable. As … market characterized by exogenous unemployment. However, stronger competition for labor does not impair labor market …
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Competition Policy and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Assessment
Buccirossi, Paolo; Ciari, Lorenzo; Duso, Tomaso; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
institutions. …
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Providing Public Goods Without Strong Sanctioning Institutions
Gerber, Anke; Wichardt, Philipp C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
powerful institutions to sanction free-riders. The idea of the mechanism is to require players to commit to the public good by …
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Business Groups in Emerging Markets - Financial Control and Sequential Investment
Hainz, Christa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model …
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The Political Economy of Corruption and the Role of Financial Institutions
Boerner, Kira; Hainz, Christa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
political pressure to reduce corruption if financial institutions are missing. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt … the rents from corruption. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more …-functioning financial institutions, in turn, can increase the political support for anti-corruption measures. …
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The Impact of ISO 9000 Diffusion on Trade and FDI: A New Institutional Analysis
Clougherty, Joseph A.; Grajek, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD nations over the 1995-2002 period to estimate the impact of ISO adoptions on country-pair economic relations. We find ISO diffusion to have no effect in developed nations, but to...
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Labour Market Statistics: Employment by job tenure intervals: average tenure (Edition 2022)
OECD - 2022
This comparative table comprises statistics on employment by job tenure intervals which is measured by the length of time workers have been in their current or main job or with their current employer. This information is valuable for estimating the degree of fluidity in the labour market and in...
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Labour Market Statistics: Employment by job tenure intervals: persons (Edition 2022)
OECD - 2022
This dataset contains annual labour market statistics with a distribution of workers by job tenure intervals which is measured by the length of time workers have been in their current or main job or with their current employer.These statistics enable the assessment of the degree of fluidity in...
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Labour Market Statistics: Unemployment by duration: incidence (Edition 2022)
OECD - 2022
and 3 months and 6 months and <1 year, 1 year and over - of unemployment among total unemployment by sex and by …
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