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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education : Financing Tuition Fees
Chapman, Bruce - 2011
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private ownership will enhance company performance, measured in a...
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health During Covid–19 : A Longitudinal Study from Singapore
Ahn, SangNam - 2020
The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we...
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change : Evidence from Ireland
Cronin, Hugh - 2014
organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the … research is that while workforce resistance to job-related change often forces firms to seek alternative means of achieving … labour flexibility, there appears little that firms can do to prevent such resistance occurring. The presence of HRM staff …
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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021
In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...
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Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows : Evidence on French Establishments
Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of French establishments. Working with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317244
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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Campaner, Annika - 2018
We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that employees are more likely to receive training when...
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