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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
innovative entrepreneurship, that will also be discussed bridging entrepreneurial studies with the development literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach
Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas; Bilkic, Natasa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose an alternative way to model whether firms export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791522
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220616
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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczyslaw W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233877
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The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczyslaw W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233900
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The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts
Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Poland’s economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this …-friendly governments were voted out of office, the new governments in Poland never reversed reforms undertaken by the previous government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010544320
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703120
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To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland
Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703667