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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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Examines legislative changes since 1990 in Central and Eastern European countries with regard to the mechanisms, institutions and levels of collective bargaining, the legal nature of collective agreements, union representativeness, and labour dispute settlement.
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In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms’ innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation,...
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We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
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country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a …
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targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …
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competitiveness of the environment and there is no significant difference in performance in the real-effort task across the …
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fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …
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heavy electrical industry firms, compares organization behaviour, management decision making, Innovation research and …
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productivity, working conditions of plantation workers, management structures, etc. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables. …
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