Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

In many practical cases one has to choose an arrangement of different objects so that they are compatible. Whenever the compatibility of the objects can be checked by a pair-wise comparison the problem can be moddeled using the graph-theoretic notion of cliques.

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...

This exploratory paper investigates why some companies appear to find successful business relationshipsrelatively effortless. It seems that the organisation’s search for and utilisation of key resources canguarantee its success in the market place. The paper incorporates a critique of...