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Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
Tani, Massimiliano - 2011
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on face-to-face interactions carried out through international business visits. The results indicate that...
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation
Maibom, Jonas - 2012
We analyze the effects of four randomized social experiments, involving early and intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The experiments entailed different combinations of early and intensive treatment in terms of meetings and active labour market programmes. The...
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What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists
Borghans, Lex - 2010
respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample of European labour economists, preferences are measured using the …) conferences. We find that the keynote speakers are the most important element in the preference for a conference, followed by the … location of the conference. There is substantial heterogeneity in the taste of labour economists especially with respect to …
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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions
Fehr, Dietmar - 2016
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe a trustee's behavior and can gossip about it by...
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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships : Experimental Evidence
Kleine, Marco - 2015
We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …
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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health : Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China
Liu, Hong - 2011
Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs' workers and a high unemployment rate. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the...
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Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality : The Key Role of Innovative Procedures
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...
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Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
Cheng, Terence Chai - 2013
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterised by the number of working...
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Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing
Monteiro, Natália P. - 2010
We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes...
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2021
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...
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