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This paper examines the role of job satisfaction in the determination of establishment-level productivity. The matched … establishment productivity from longitudinal register data that can be linked to the ECHP. The estimates for the effect of a one … point increase in the establishment average level of employee job satisfaction, on a scale 1-6, on productivity vary …
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To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and noninteractive …
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crashes. In brief, upon looking at return performance across an array of regions, countries, and sectors, broad market …
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Technical advances in retail banking have had profound repercussions for the competitiveness of individual firms and for the sector as a whole. This paper looks at the role played by new technological resources within the context of organizational change and the products and services offered by...
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Whilst a great deal of e¤ort has been dedicated to identification of agglomeration effects on labour productivity, the … measurement of spatial productivity spillovers is a question that has been addressed only occasionally along the New Economic … productivity spillovers across Spanish municipalities in year 2001. To this respect, we find that agglomeration effects are in the …
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service firms in Spain operate only in their local markets, whereas one-third of the examined service firms trade with non …-local areas of Spain, and fewer than 20% of Spanish service firms trade with other nations. Similar to those in the manufacturing … sector, trading firms in the service sector exhibit premia relative to non-traders with respect to size, labor productivity …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between export status and productivity in a major service exporter, Spain, during … 2001-2007. I find that exporters in the services sector are 37% more productive than non-exporters. This productivity … that exporting increases productivity growth; however, this positive shock vanishes quickly. …
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The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...
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The welfare state was created after 1950 with counterproductive mechanisms and this caused high inflation and high unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not succeed in finding workable mechanisms. They rather...
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This paper is focused on hotel customers' internal and external satisfaction. Some previous studies had only focused on the customers' external satisfaction and only a few studies had managed to link between the two variables. The study also looked into factors which may act as internal...
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