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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488826
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Transition on the shop floor : the restructuring of a weaving mill, Hungary 1988-97
Köllő, János (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001877107
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Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity
Dostie, Benoît (contributor);  … - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741920
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Broadband diffusion and firm performance in rural areas : quasi-experimental evidence
Canzian, Giulia; Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2015
This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), generating a source of exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348292
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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings : a marginal treatment effects approach
Arias, Omar (contributor); Khamis, Melanie (contributor) - 2008
This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793731
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794077
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735905
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The skill complementarity of broadband internet
Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - 2013
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … technology by adopting broadband internet. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides … business. By comparison, broadband internet is a substitute for workers without high school diploma, lowering their marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221546
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Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412907