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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis : Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Kocher, Martin G. - 2012

Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level,this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market formanufactured goods...<br<

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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entryand Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault; Scarpetta, Stefano - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creativedestruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping thisprocess, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms´ decision to enter, to expandif successful and to exit if...

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Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes?The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

McKenzie, David J.; Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the countrywith the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firmsenables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations thatcan affect...

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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995-2000

Böheim, René; Cardoso, Ana Rute - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject topoorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of theeconomy. The first aim of this analysis is to quantify the wage penalty, if any, for workers inTAW. Secondly, we analyze...

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 19862003

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. Thispaper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED)from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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Age and Opportunities for Promotion

Machado, C. Sofia - 2013

Using a panel of new firms and their employees, this paper studies the promotion opportunities for older workers within the same firm. Survival analysis suggests that younger employees experience shorter times to promotion than older workers and, therefore, the latter face a smaller likelihood...

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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Heshmati, Almas - 2013

This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...

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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique - 2013

, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations. We conducted a field experiment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in order to … enforcement visit from a municipal inspector; while the fourth group was assigned to have a neighboring firm receive an … enforcement visit to see if enforcement has spillovers. We find zero or negative impacts of information and free cost treatments …

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Regional Determinants of Establishments' Innovation Activities : A Multi-Level Approach

Bellmann, Lutz - 2014

This paper analyses the determinants of different innovation types. Beside a wide range of firm characteristics also the effects of regional factors are estimated using three-level random effect logit models which account for the clustered and longitudinal structure of the data. The analyses...

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