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Labor turnover in the child-care industry: voice and exit
Hatch, Lynn A. - 2009
What relationship exists between working conditions and teacher turnover in child-care (early care and education) programs? Research has shown high staff turnover is a major factor affecting the quality of care. Using a new survey and data set I designed of union and randomly selected non-union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468203
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A Study on Workforce Integration in an International Acquisition
Lussier, Christopher - 2010
International acquisitions are extremely difficult to maneuver and success is far from guaranteed. Navigating through financial statements is one thing, but trying to link together two or more geographically and culturally diverse workforces is an entirely another thing. This study analyzes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450223
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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies 1
Jurajda, ŠtěpÁn; Terrell, Katherine - 2009
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477362
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Housing tenure and labour mobility : a comparison across European countries
Barceló Varona, Cristina - 2006
This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment,...
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Three Essays on Worker Turnover and Incentive Contracts in Labour Market Search Equilibrium
Zaharieva, Anna - 2010
This dissertation thesis consists of three independent research papers and is devoted to the topic of worker turnover and incentive contracts in a labour market characterized by search frictions and matching. There exists a large body of literature dating back to the seminal studies by Diamond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471691
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Fiscal Federalism, Citizen-Candidate Mobility and Political Competition
Nastassine, Stanislav - 2005
This work consists of two parts. In the first part I analyze the influence of personal mobility on the citizens' willingness to run for a political office in their municipality and on the resulting local policy outcome. The model portrays heterogeneous policy preferences that are coupled with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471802
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Essays on Systems Competition with Human Capital Mobility
Lange, Thomas - 2010
This thesis is a collection of four stand-alone essays on international competition for human capital, together with a general introduction and some concluding remarks. The first essay deals with decentralized public education and human capital mobility. The international mobility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471822
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Markteintritt deutscher KMU in Japan ? eine theoretische und empirische Analyse anhand der Medizintechnikindustrie
Toto, Serkan - 2009
ger?t Japan im Zuge der Hinwendung deutscher Firmen nach China in der Wahrnehmung der ?ffentlichkeit zunehmend in den …??ten Absatzmarktes der Welt. Die Kernfrage dieser Untersuchung lautet: Welche Methoden des Markteintritts in Japan existieren f?r diese … von KMU besonderer Bezug genommen. Im Rahmen einer ausf?hrlichen Analyse m?glicher Markteintrittsoptionen in Japan wird im …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485594
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Implications of lifting the ban on the export of Alaskan crude oil
2008
Japanese market and the US West Coast market. Japan is the principal potential export market for Alaskan crude oil. Exports to …
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Navy mobility fuels forecasting system report: World petroleum trade forecasts for the year 2000
Das, S. - 2008
coming from Japan, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. Several regions, the Far East, Japan, Latin American, and Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436664