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Environmental policy without costs? A review of the Porter hypothesis
Brännlund, Runar; Lundgren, Tommy - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature connected to the so called Porter Hypothesis. That is, to review the literature connected to the discussion about the relation between environmental policy and competitiveness. According to the conventional wisdom environmental policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207277
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652531
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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822352
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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734422
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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....
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