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Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

Infiltration of the legal economy by criminal organizations (OCGs) is potentially significant, though how pervasive remains uncertain. Beyond the volume, the motives driving infiltration are of serious policy concern. We introduce a conceptual framework to differentiate between OCGs' motives for...

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A behavioral account of the labor market : the role of fairness concerns

Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Götte, Lorenz (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...

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Social incentives in the workplace

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2009

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensation scheme in...

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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance … corporate R&D in high-tech sectors and, to some extent, in medium-tech sectors. By contrast, supporting corporate R&D in the low … capital intensity). Hence, the allocation of support for corporate R&D seems to be as important as its overall increase and an …

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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace : evidence from a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...

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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Establishment exits in Germany : the role of size and age

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that between 1975 and 2006 the average exit rate has risen considerably. In order to test various "liabilities" of establishment survival identified in the literature, we analyze...

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The firm as the locus of social comparisons : internal labor markets versus up-or-out

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012

We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...

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Surviving the crisis : foreign multinationals vs domestic firms in Ireland

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2011

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...

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