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Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761666
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796455
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ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India
Basant, Rakesh; Commander, Simon; Harrison, Rupert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms … on average use ICT more intensively than their Indian counterparts but changes over time have been rather similar in both … places. Within countries ICT intensity is strongly related to size, ownership structure, share of administrative workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566576
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Trust and Control at the Workplace: Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of … strict working time regulations, monitoring and lack of autonomy – all indicators for control at the workplace – are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011897
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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969328
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High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark
Cristini, Annalisa; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive effects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After assessing the correlation between organizational innovation and firm performance, this article investigates whether high-involvement work...
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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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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
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Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003
Walsh, Patrick Paul; Li, Qi; Whelan, Ciara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand “jobless” growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants...
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