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Instrumente der Wirkungsorientierten Polizeiführung

Schedler, Kuno - 2001

Die 90er-Jahre sind durch Reformen im politisch-administrativen System nach dem Typus des New Public Managment geprägt. In der Schweiz entwickelt sich schon früh eine eigene Reformlinie, die weniger die Leistungen als die Wirkungen der staatlichen Aktivitäten hervorstreicht.(...)

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Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion: Influences of Childhood Poverty, Family Disruption, and Contact with thePolice

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This study uses data from the National Child Development Studyto examine how experiences during childhood are linked to a widevariety of outcomes in adulthood. A cluster of childhoodexperiences (poverty, family disruption, and contact with thepolice) are given specific attention. One of the main...

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Verbundprojekt SYSKREISNutzenoptimierte Systemlösungen zur Förderung der Kreislaufwirtschaft am Beispiel Büro

Nolte, Roland; Wapler, Marion - Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung … - 2001

The co-operation project SYSKREIS aiming at marketing systemic use-oriented office solutions has been supported by the … inno-vative services for all phases of the life cycle of office products. Starting from a thorough analysis of actual … for Leasing and other Services have been developed which lay the basis for a decrease of time and intensity of office …

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Origins of Catch-up Failure: Comparative Productivity Growth in the Hapsburg Empire, 1870-1910

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for the contribution of physical and human capital growth, it seeks to address three questions:...

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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity?Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...

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Is Poland the Next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

We revisitWestern Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence and tentativelyextrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. Thepoorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through bothhigher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...

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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updatedtest, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data.Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics inthe adjustment...

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Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks

Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study how workers’ wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms’ labor productivity.Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in themanufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures of physical (as opposed torevenue) TFP to instrument...

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Real Wages and the Business Cycle:Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005period, this study analyzes the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor marketconditions for newly hired workers and existing workers. Accounting for both worker and firmheterogeneity, the data...

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