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Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Boudreaux, Christopher - 2021
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and...
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Globalization and Firm Performance
Catão, Luis A. V.; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023
Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296647
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Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment
Dunsch, Felipe A.; Evans, David K.; Eze-Ajoku, Ezinne; … - 2017
If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to generate persistent improvements in quality. We present results from a randomized field experiment in 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744679
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Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment
Eggert, Wolfgang; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261641
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261645
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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261652
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Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?
2004
During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others … the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in … countries where unemployment remained high. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261829
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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? : Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261830
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Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data
Güell, Maia; Hu, Luojia - 2004
This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labor market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment for the short-term unemployed compared to the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261840
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Unemployment in the OECD : Models and Mysteries
Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Madsen, Jakob B. - 2004
This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the ?natural rate of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261916