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A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...
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Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and identify effects using difference-in-differences and synthetic controls on rich microdata. I...
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employment. We find that employees in this group have stronger feelings of job security and loyalty, which we relate to family …
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the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of … importance include human resource practices. With respect to the effects of employee commitment and loyalty upon the workplace …
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employment. We find that employees in this group have stronger feelings of job security and loyalty, which we relate to family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220616
the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of … importance include human resource practices. With respect to the effects of employee commitment and loyalty upon the workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804590
While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income, in particular in research on the Easterlin paradox....
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … sample. No effects on life satisfaction can be found except for underweight men. They reveal less satisfaction. Only in the …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …
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Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...
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