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Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market Mechanisms

Landier, Augustin; Thesmar, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the drivers of support for market mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social objective. We...

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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...

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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing firms with …

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Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic 13,516 resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor,...

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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"

Cai, Hongbin - 2007

Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate entry of domestic firms into the same industry and...

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The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos

Evans, William N. - 2002

In the late 1980s, a series of legal rulings favorable to tribes and the subsequent passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 legalized gaming operations on reservations in many states. Today, there are over 310 gaming operations run by more than 200 of the nations' 556...

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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico

Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016

relationship to emerging work on aspirations in development economics. We then present one-month follow-up results from an …

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Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Feir, Donna; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...

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