A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...

This thesis offers five self-contained essays on the need of institutions and their design. Each essay constitutes a chapter, the first of which offers a mathematical model showing the importance of external institutions for the existence of a society. More specifically, it is an extension of a...

Employee turnover is quite costly. Firstly in terms of finance, secondly there is the possibility to lose knowledge workers and thirdly it may threaten knowledge continuity. Therefore, it is necessary to take care about causes leading to employee turnover. The aim of the paper is, based on the...

This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...

The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity, especially private industry standards are often expected to have a negative impact on agricultural export sectors in developing countries. The successful adoption of standards by a...

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...