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Management, supervision, and health care : a field experiment
Dunsch, Felipe Alexander; Evans, David K.; Eze-Ajoku, Ezinne - 2017
intervention concluded. The light intervention showed no consistent effects at either point. We conclude that sustained supervision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731851
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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309508
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Are the East African Community's countries ready for a common currency?
Rusuhuzwa, Thomas Kigabo; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
We use data from online job postings listed on a job board to study how the demand for jobs linked to new technologies during the COVID-19 crisis responded to pandemic mitigation policies. We classify job postings into a standard occupation classification, using text analytics, and we group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173227
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Settlement location shapes refugee integration : evidence from post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - 2019
Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants affected their economic, social and political integration in West Germany. We first document large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133397
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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries
Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaïd, Fateh - 2023
This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013498970
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Delving into the demand side : changes in workplace specialization and job polarization
Cortes, Guido Matias; Salvatori, Andrea - 2016
evidence that suggests that the increase in non-routine cognitive workplaces is linked to the growth in outsourcing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520985
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The hold-down problem and the boundaries of the firm : lessons from a hidden action model with endogenous outside option
Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410683
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The rise of domestic outsourcing and the evolution of the German wage structure
Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015
to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning, security and … growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296066
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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
, but not necessarily formal-to-informal outsourcing, and, in response, the developed nation wage can fall. Productivity … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242847
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More than the money : payoff-irrelevant terms in relational contracts
Cromwell, Erich; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Ziółkowska, Monika - 2018
In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893429