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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2016
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
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Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761666
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The Identification of Time-Invariant Variables in Panel Data Model: Exploring the Role of Science in Firms’ Productivity
Amoroso, Sara; Bruno, Randolph Luca; Magazzini, Laura - 2022
Recent literature has raised the attention on the estimation of time-invariant variables both in a static and a dynmamic framework. In this context, Hausman-Taylor type estimators have been applied, relying crucially on the distinction between exogenous and endogenous variables (in terms of...
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796455
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ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India
Basant, Rakesh; Commander, Simon; Harrison, Rupert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms … on average use ICT more intensively than their Indian counterparts but changes over time have been rather similar in both … places. Within countries ICT intensity is strongly related to size, ownership structure, share of administrative workers and …
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...
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Trust and control at the workplace: evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2009
explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of … strict working time regulations, monitoring and lack of autonomy - all indicators for control at the workplace - are …
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