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Chinese unions and enterprises performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013
unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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Human capital spillovers and economic performance in the workplace in 2004 : some British evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka (contributor); Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2007
) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591840
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … ; gender ; productivity ; profitability ; Germany …
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Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency : selection on productivity or profitability?
Foster, Lucia (contributor);  … - 2005
) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …
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A theory of social impact bonds
Tortorice, Daniel L.; Bloom, David E.; Kirby, Paige; … - 2020
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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Governance and public service delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...
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Roma and bureaucrats : a field experiment on ethnic and socioeconomic discrimination
Mikula, Stepan; Montag, Josef - 2023
This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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Public versus private provision of daycare : an experimental evaluation
Viitanen, Tarja K. (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a significant boost for new daycare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall daycare...
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Incentives in the public sector : evidence from a government agency
Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; … - 2012
worker productivity, what the team basis of the scheme implies, and the impact of the differential measurement precision. We …
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