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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994 - 2001
Orazem, Peter F. (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800163
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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641779
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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015
Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333569
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Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? : Evidence from 26 transition countries
Commander, Simon (contributor); Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451842
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Productivity, wages and profits : does firms' position in the value chain matter?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Vermeylen, Guillaume; … - 2019
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138890
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Management as a technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality … (part of which stems from the larger covariance between management with firm size as competition strengthens); and (iii) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486495
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Shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits does not affect the quality of post-unemployment jobs : evidence from a natural experiment
Ours, Jan C. van (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2006
-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335453
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Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers' behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906298
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How to increase R&D in transition economies? : Evidence from Slovenia
Domadenik, Polona (contributor);  … - 2007
studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature mainly cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595837
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Levelling the playing field : the effects of Slovenia's 2013 labour market reform
Vodopivec, Matija; Laporšek, Suzana; Vodopivec, Milan - 2016
We examine the effects of a 2013 labour market reform in Slovenia which made permanent contracts less restrictive and … fixed-term contracts more restrictive. Using matched employer-employee database covering the entirety of Slovenia's labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453870