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Le teck javanais : de l'exploitation illégale au boycott dramatique

Guizol, Philippe; Roda, Jean Marc; Muhtaman, Dwi R; … - EconWPA - 2005

Planté depuis de nombreux siècles à Java, le teck y a été particulièrement développé au XIXe siècle. Les 200 000 ha de plantations de teck constituent la plus vaste plantation de cette essence au monde. Cette ressource est néanmoins surexploitée, et des Ong mettent en question sa...

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Javanese teack : from illegal harvests to dramatic boycott

Guizol, Philippe; Roda, Jean-Marc; Muhtaman, Dwi R.; … - EconWPA - 2005

Teak was first planted centuries ago in Java and the industry reached its peak in the 19th century. Java's teak plantations, the most extensive in the world, cover some 200 000 hectares, but they are being overexploited and NGOs are questioning their management by the state. Teak has become...

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Monopoly intermediary and information transmission

Quesada, Lucia; Peyrache, Eloic - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper we extend Lizzeri's simple model of information transmission through certification intermediaries. A …

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Predicting job performance: A comparison of expert opinion and research findings*

Dakin, Stephen; Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004

A survey was conducted of New Zealand personnel consultants. Their beliefs about the validity of various selection tools and their claimed usage of these tools was then compared with the validities in a previously published meta-analysis. The experts claimed to use the predictors they believed...

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IE WP 02/04 Technology and the environment: an evolutionary approach to sustainable technological change

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

Can the individual actions of agents spontaneously move the system out of a state where it is locked into an environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More importantly, even if the system were able to make the...

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IE WP 20/03 An Evolutionary Approach to the Process of Technology Diffusion and Standardization

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

the related phenomenon of standardization. Secondly, it aims to show a broadened and evolutionary view of the process of … technology standardization, avoiding the habitual determinism of conventional models of technology diffusion and lock-in. Finally … attributes of the technology standardization processes in them. To achieve these goals we have developed an agent based model …

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Optimal Audit Policy and Heterogenous Agents

Ratto, Marisa; Vergé, Thibaud - EconWPA - 2003

to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper … focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two categories of agents and shows that the auditor adopts different … policies depending on its budget. When resources are quite limited, the auditor sets identical audit probabilities for both …

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Some are Punished and Some are Rewarded: A Study of the Impact of Performance Pay on Job Satisfaction

McCausland, W.D.; Pouliakas, K.; Theodossiou, I. - EconWPA - 2005

Using an econometric procedure that corrects for both self-selection of individuals into their preferred compensation scheme and wage endogeneity, this study investigates whether significant differences exist in the job satisfaction of individuals receiving performance- related pay (PRP)...

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Socio-Economic Differences in the Perceived Quality of High and Low-Paid Jobs in Europe

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - EconWPA - 2005

This paper engages in a novel comparison of differences in the perceived quality of high and low-paid jobs across six European labour markets. Utilizing data from six waves (1996-2001) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), and after correcting for the selectivity problem that is...

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Do Job Disamenities Raise Wages or Ruin Job Satisfaction?

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This study investigates the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of individual wages and overall job satisfaction in the Finnish labour market. The potential influence of adverse working conditions on self-reported fairness of pay at the workplace is considered as an...

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