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Redesigning teams and incentives in a merger : an experiment with managers and students
Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001948621
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Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP 1887 - 2012
Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - 2013
firms. Like the US, Australia experienced a post-warv "great compression" prior to the recent "great divergence". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766261
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Gender and work hours transitions in Australia : drop ceilings and trap-door floors
Drago, Robert (contributor); Black, David (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002157895
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Do financial constraints affect the composition of workers in a firm?
Breunig, Robert; Hourani, Diana; Bakhtiari, Sasan; … - 2020
We study the relationship between financing constraints and the work- force composition of firms that employ both casual and non-casual workers. We use data on Australian firms from 2009-2014 and a more direct measure of firm financial constraint than previous studies. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171302
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What drives innovation? : lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity - measured by clinical trials - typically follows the 'law of diminishing efforts': i.e. the elasticity of R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430944
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How do drug prices respond to a change from external to internal reference pricing? : evidence from a Danish regulatory reform
Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J. - 2015
We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals using quasi-experimental data for Denmark which switched from external (where reimbursements are based on prices of similar products in foreign countries) to internal reference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467805
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Is part-time employment beneficial for firm productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a "hard" physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124147
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Active ingredients : exploring the key factors affecting the rising cost of developing new drugs
Fossett, Sarah J.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2017
What makes prescription drugs cost so much? The media and Congress say it is corporate greed, while pharmaceutical firms blame federal regulations and an expensive drug development process. This study focuses on R & D (R&D) expenditures at global pharmaceutical firms and explores the driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670851
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How do you find a good manager?
Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - 2024
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584405
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Unions and the labor market for managers
DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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