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rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …
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During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed … components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of …
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preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four … different motivations for entering competitions enjoyment of competition, desire to win, competition for personal development …
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In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but growing evidence on the external relevance of...
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increasingly hindered by psychological stress and risk aversion as competition is higher. Finally, we use panel data to estimate …
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competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition …
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We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...
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competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity.The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … Herfindahl-Hirschman index (on a 0-100 scale), a measure of market concentration, explains an increase by 1 percent in the total …
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