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increasingly hindered by psychological stress and risk aversion as competition is higher. Finally, we use panel data to estimate …
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Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive …
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automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …
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The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …-induced innovation increase by the IG Farben successors, which then spilled over to the wider chemical industry. …
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cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …
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from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- immigration ; marriage ; sex ratio imbalance ; international marriages ; cross …
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Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" - would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an overtime...
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cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s … reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …
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through which HPWPs lead to better enterprise performance. -- High performance work practices ; employee voice ; Japan ; Korea …
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