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Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems : evidence from new Japanese data
Kato, Takao (contributor); Ōwan, Hideo (contributor) - 2007
consistent with the theory) is that the adoption of both self-managed online teams and cross-functional offline teams usually … in firms with joint labor-management committees. We also confirm implications from our theory that firms in more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561667
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Resource allocation and firm scope
Friebel, Guido (contributor); Raith, Michael (contributor) - 2006
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but … leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … integration or non-integration is optimal. Our theory thus provides a simple answer to Williamson's selective-interventionʺ puzzle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464116
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716521
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes (contributor); Marklein, Felix (contributor) - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716538
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755931
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The benefits of linking CGE and microsimulation models : evidence from a flat tax analysis
Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
modelling flat tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking the general equilibrium effects into account has important implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759271
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777808
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Promotions and incentives : the case of multi-stage elimination tournaments
Altmann, Steffen (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage elimination tournaments. The main treatment of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777950
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They are even larger! : more (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896476
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900012