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Work arrangements on large capital city building projects
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
The study examines the relationship between work arrangements and workplace performance on large capital building sites.
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The wage effects from the use of personal contacts as hiring channels
Antoninis, Manos - EconWPA - 2004
It has been argued that the use of personal networks in the hiring process has a positive influence on the wages of referred individuals. However, the value of recommendations to the employer varies according to the type of vacancy to be filled and the provider of information on job applicants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118670
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Work Arrangements in the Australian Meat Processing Industry
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561801
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Work arrangements in container stevedoring
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This study examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of container stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to achieving improved work arrangements are analysed. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561840
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Protéger les méthodes commerciales liées à Internet : un frein au développement ?
Delzelle, Benoit - EconWPA - 2003
La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger des biens immatériels ou des idées ? N'est-ce pas menacer durablement le développement de la "nouvelle économie" ? N'est-ce pas brider l'activité inventive et...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407748
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How Well Do Patent Citations Measure Flows of Technology? Evidence from French Innovation Surveys
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Megan, MacGARVIE - EconWPA - 2004
Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Research … diffusing outward from the patenting entity. Until now, there exists little evidence on whether or not patent citations are a … good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118706
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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004
and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of …, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … a censored trivariate Probit model. We reach two main conclusions. First, the value of patent rights increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118819
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Die ökonomischen Effekte der Hochschulausgaben des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt – Fiskalische, Humankapital- und Kapazitätseffekte der Hochschulen in Magdeburg (Teil 2)
Rosner, Ulf; Weimann, Joachim - EconWPA - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert, in welchem Umfang und auf welchen Wegen der Wissens- und Humankapitaltransfer durch die Otto-von-Guericke- Universität Magdeburg und die Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) in die Wirtschaft Sachsen-Anhalts stattfindet. Ausgehend von der wirtschaftlichen Ausgangslage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556230
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the intergenerational transmission of human capital: the case of heterogenous families
HLAIMI, Boubaker - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this paper is to analyse the intergenerational transmission mechanisms within a theoretical framework which supposes a heterogeneous family structure. For that, we propose a modified version of the model of Becker and Tomes (1986) by supposing that they exist two groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076521
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Human Capital in Transitional Russia
Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002
This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992- 2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076535