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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
Pencavel, John H. - 2012
A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099086
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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships
Francesconi, Marco - 2006
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780020
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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises : An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
Arando, Saioa - 2011
difference models we find that hypermarket stores with cooperative ownership grow sales significantly faster than GESPA stores … cooperatives. Finally, while cooperative members are better paid than their peers in comparable firms, individual-level data also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124780
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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Basu, Arnab K. - 2011
) sector. The second is that contract enforcement is easier in the formal sector than in the informal sector, precisely because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122167
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Reputation and Credit Market Formation : How Relational Incentives and Legal Contract Enforcement Interact
Fehr, Ernst - 2009
The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157034
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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952588
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Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market
Dolado, Juan Jose; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) a contract that exempts employers from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083937
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Unions and Firms' Investments : A Unified View
Berton, Fabio - 2019
decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have positive effects on labor effort, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864858
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129918
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134819