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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - 2013

The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...

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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women's labor supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...

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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004

What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...

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Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

Corporate success often resembles a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.

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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002

management instrument shape the self-perception of management and engender true, rather than faked, social exchange. The market …

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Competition, cooperation, and corporate culture

Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2007

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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