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Is a policy of free movement of workers sustainable?

Picard, Pierre M.; Worrall, Timothy - 2014

This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...

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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...

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Escaping social pressure: fixed-term contracts in multi-establishment firms

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Fontaine, François; … - 2021

We develop a simple theoretical model showing that, by adding to the adjustment costs associated with permanent contracts, local social pressure against dismissals creates an incentive for CEOs to rely on fixed-term contracts, in an attempt to escape social pressure. Using linked...

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On the effectiveness of elected male and female leaders and team coordination

Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...

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Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress

Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...

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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social … responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … in poorer regions that are more likely to have managers who opt for a higher CSR rating. Managers' personal …

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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort

Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...

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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021

A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...

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UK households' carbon footprint : a comparison of the association between household characteristics and emissions from home energy, transport and other goods and services

Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2013

Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...

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Crisis and reorganization in urban dynamics : the Barcelona case study

Balanzó, Rafael de; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2017

We use the adaptive cycle theory to improve our understanding of cycles of urban change in the city of Barcelona from 1953 to present. Most specifically, we explore the vulnerabilities and windows of opportunity these cycles for change introduced in the release (Ω) and reorganization (α)...

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