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Building Bankomat: The development of on-line, real-time systems in British and Swedish savings banks, c.1965-1985
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Karlsson, Tobias; Thodenius, Björn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
interweaved with the adoption of OLRT computing in Sweden and the UK (alongside a running comparison of similar developments in … the USA). Low transaction volume and small retail bank networks facilitated the early adoption of OLRT by savings banks in … Europe. In documenting cases of organizational change in Sweden and the UK, we depart from predominant view that considers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756282
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Indigenous Job Search Success
Gray, Matthew; Hunter, Boyd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
One important and under-researched aspect of labour market policy is the extent to which policy interventions are effective in modifying job search behaviour. Furthermore, there is little extant research on whether certain job search behaviours lead to labour market success. Our analysis uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837174
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The efficiency analysis applied for the evaluation of labour market policies: Study case for Romania
Roman, Monica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The transition to a market economy started in Romania after 1989 and had significant repercussions on labor market outcomes, in terms of both levels and composition. Labor markets adjusted to the new economic environment by reducing employment and labor force participation, and by increasing...
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The EU labour market crisis and recovery policies. The Bulgarian response to the crisis
Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The current study analyzes the status of both the European and the Bulgarian labor markets from the standpoint of the effects of the current crisis, which has affected the supply and demand of labor as well as the employment structure. It further examines the anti-crisis policies, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322632
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Flexicurity in the European Union: flexibility for outsiders, security for insiders
Van Vliet, Olaf; Nijboer, Henk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Flexicurity is at the heart of European policy debates. Its aim is to overcome the tensions between labour market flexibility on the one hand, and the provision of social security for workers on the other hand. To date, there is little insight into whether flexicurity policies have been adopted...
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Revisiting the Effects of Enhanced Flexibility on the Italian Labour Market
d'Agostino, Giorgio; Pieroni, Luca; Scarlato, Margherita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, we assess the effects of the Italian labour market reforms which began in 2001 and which led to widespread deployment of temporary work contracts. Using a hitherto unexploited administrative dataset of work histories for the period 2003-2010, we estimate transition probabilities...
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Institutional Clash and Financial Fragility. An Evolutionary Model of Banking Crises
Knutsen, Sverre; Sjögren, Hans - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
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Workforce Reductions in Theory and Practice: The Swedish Tobacco Monopoly in the 1920s
Karlsson, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to clarify and discuss the various ways firms can make workforce reductions. This aim is accomplished by an in-depth study of an historical case; the downsizing process undertaken in the 1920s by the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, a state-owned company that had to balance...
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The 1992-93 Swedish Crisis Debate: How Economic Consensus Overturns Tradition.
Jakee, Keith - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Europe, post-2007. The very survival of Sweden’s famed welfare state was fiercely debated during the 1992–93 crisis, just as …. Ultimately, Sweden’s welfare state survived, but was fundamentally reformed nearly twenty years ago. As a result, the Swedish …
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National cultures and new forms of work organisation in EU countries: convergence or divergence?
Ferreira, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In Europe, anthropocentric organization models had their maximum expression in the Swedish model, which came to be known as “uddevalism” or “volvoism”. There are several factors that were presented as conditioners of this success (cf. Durand, 1994). Some critical factors to the success...
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