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Textile manufacturing in eight developing countries:How far does the business environment explain firms' productive inefficiency?
Chaffai, Mohamed; Kinda, Tidiane; Plane, Patrick - HAL - 2011
broad categories (e.g. managerial organization, economic environment, institutions) by using principal component analyses …. Results do not reject the hypothesis that managerial know-how and the quality of institutions are the most important …-based simulations are then proposed in order to assess productivity gains which would occur if firms had the opportunity to evolve in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794824
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How Do Spouses Share their Full Income ? Identification of the Sharing Rule Using Self-Reported Income
Kalugina, Ekaterina; Radtchenko, Natalia; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2006
The paper applies the collective model to the analysis of intra-household inequality using self-reported income scales. Starting from a collective model including household production, our key assumption is that the income level that household members report corresponds to their true income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750944
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How Do Spouses Share their Full Income in Russia?: Identification of the Sharing Rule Using Self-reported Income
Kalugina, Ekaterina; Radtchenko, Natalia; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2009
The paper applies the collective model to the analysis of intra-household inequality using self-reported income scales and provides a test for its assumptions. We assume a correspondence between the income level that household members report and their true income sharing. Using Russian data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738444
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New insights into the selection process of Mexican migrants.What can we learn from discrepancies between intentions to migrate and actual moves to the U.S.?
Chort, Isabelle - HAL - 2012
Comparing intentions to migrate and actual migration of Mexicans, I intend to assess the impact of unexpected shocks and misevaluated costs on the materialization of migration plans. I show that both sets of reasons may explain discrepancies between intentions and subsequent actions without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738891
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Intra-Household Inequality in Transitional Russia
Kalugina, Ekaterina; Radtchenko, Natalia; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2009
The paper proposes an original strategy for analyzing household sharing of income and satisfaction. Using two different subjective questions from the Russian data RLMS (Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey), we assume a correspondence between, first, the perception of income that household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635187
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DO PRODUCT MARKET REGULATIONS IN UPSTREAM SECTORS CURB PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH? PANEL DATA EVIDENCE FOR OECD COUNTRIES
Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy; … - HAL - 2010
The paper focuses on the influence of upstream competition for productivity outcomes in downstream sectors. This …. Thus, lack of competition in upstream markets curbs incentives to improve productivity downstream, negatively affecting … imperfections in the production of intermediate goods. In this context, upstream market imperfections create barriers to competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794277
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Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?.
Kimble, Chris; Hildreth, Paul - HAL - 2004
In the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based attempts to manage knowledge. However, the original CoP concept was built around a very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790534
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El latinoamericanismo en Austria: situación y perspectivas
Coy, Martin; Reinberg, Stefanie - HAL - 2010
This article explores the current situation of Latin American studies in Austria, and the position they have within the country s university and scientific research system. On the basis of that analysis, conclusions are drawn about the main challenges that Austrian Latin Americanism faces, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820542
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Agent-Based Models and Simulations in Economics and Social Sciences
Phan, Denis; Varenne, Franck - HAL - 2010
Now that complex Agent-Based Models and computer simulations spread over economics and social sciences - as in most sciences of complex systems -, epistemological puzzles (re)emerge. We introduce new epistemological concepts so as to show to what extent authors are right when they focus on some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793338
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How to achieve climate-friendly behaviour changes ? A case study of the university of Grenoble
Blanchard, Odile - HAL - 2010
Climate change is definitely a huge challenge for the 21st century. Mitigation actions that stem from individual behaviour change towards a lower individual carbon footprint are part of the response. However, barriers are numerous for individuals to change their behaviour and actually reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793345