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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship … countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777922
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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342436
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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies
Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316912
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Employment determination in enterprises under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe
Basu, Swati (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … completely unresponsive mode characteristic of central planning, but rapidly caught up with their counterparts in Hungary and … Poland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002481016
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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries
Bornhorst, Fabian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001980068
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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game : evidence from long run play
Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2013
in wage disputes that were settled by final-offer arbitration in New Jersey. The paper also reports briefly on similar … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. -- prisoner's dilemma ; arbitration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717714
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339676
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Wage determination under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe
Basu, Swati (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002239413
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Arbitration and mediation : an economic perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412055