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The political economy of job protection and income redistribution
Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - HAL - 2005
This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a …. Hence we can assess the effects of internationalization on macroeconomic performance. The impact of internalization depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930237
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Skilled labor supply, IT-based technical change and job instability
Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - HAL - 2011
In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of the different components of job instability over a panel of 350 local labor markets in France, from the mid 1970s to the early 2000s. Although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738917
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Working in family firms: less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data
Bassanini, Andrea; Breda, Thomas; Caroli, Eve; … - HAL - 2010
We study the compensation package offered by family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a sample of French establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage gap is robust to controlling for several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738945
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Improving skills for more and better jobs?
Bassanini, Andrea - HAL - 2004
I use data from the ECHP to assess the effects of adult training on individual labour market performance. Although I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790548
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Training, wages and employment security
Bassanini, Andrea - HAL - 2006
Data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) are used to assess the effects of employee training on the average wage and employment security of different labour market groups in EU countries. Significant training wage premia are found only in the case of young or highly educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792755
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How institutions affect retailers' internationalization ?
Durand, Cédric - HAL - 2007
This paper examines the institutional and economic factors determining success and failure of global retailers abroad through the trajectories of Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Three kinds of explanations are considered : the time and modalities of entry and development, the factors that allow the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794865
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Image and personality: two complementary tools to position and differentiate retailers
Louis, Didier; Lombart, Cindy - HAL - 2011
The objective of this research is to study retailers' positioning and the way they are different from each other through the concepts of image and personality. To illustrate this point, eight retailers in three sectors (grocery, clothing and sport articles) that are leading retailers in France...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752353
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When cost improvements harm consumers
Gruyer, Nicolas; Bontems, Philippe - HAL - 2007
This paper demonstrates that in a vertical structure, improving cost efficiency might sometimes be detrimental to consumers, by increasing market price. This is in stark contrast to the standard result in oligopoly theory which suggests that the surplus generates by any efficiency gain in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898592
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Multi-Channel Retail Supply Chain Management: Fulfillment systems in Multi-Channel Retailing - Customer Expectations and Economic Performance
Lang, Gerald - HAL - 2010
sales channels is a key challenge, as customers are directly impacted from the performance of this process. In this paper … analyzing the overall performance of different fulfillment systems regarding the two dimensions customer expectations and … economic performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833314
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Does diversity of bank board members affect performance and risk? Evidence from an emerging market
Setiyono, Bowo; Tarazi, Amine - HAL - 2014
This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data …, education level and type) and find significant impacts on bank performance. On the whole, diversity is in general positively … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933906