A framework is developed for macroeconomic policy analysis in four countries of Central Europe (CE) in transition to EU … membership (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). A Multi-Annual Fiscal Adjustment Strategy (MAFAS) and a Pre …

to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay …

-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline … OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China's WTO accession …

Using data from the United States and Europe on nearly two million respondents we show the partial correlation between … union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the …

their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone …

were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut …. Using repeated cross sections we show that life satisfaction in both countries may have increased relatively among those …

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences … across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices … this setting, managers move between stores but management practices are set by firm policy and largely fixed, allowing us …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …