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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael; Jensen, Nathan M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105062
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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566784
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Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884242
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
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Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?
Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884399
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Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions
Muravyev, Alexander; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959630
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Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment
Slonimczyk, Fabian; Yurko, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis …
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Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …
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