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Social Preferences and Competition
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009
(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262784
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Competition and the ratchet effect
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2008
competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277018
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Social Preferences and Competition
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427563
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261614
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Is there a Future for Regional Banks and Regional Exchanges? The Strategies of Selected Austrian Finance Institutions
Llewellyn, David T.; Ortner, Reinhard; Stepic, Helmut; … - 2002
Reinhard Ortner (Erste Bank) is based on a talk he gave on the occasion of the 22nd SUERF Colloquium in Vienna in 2000, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689903
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Zukunft des Sozialstaates: Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels
Roppel, Cirsten; Roppel, Ulrich - 2011
Im Großen und Ganzen sind die Sozialversicherungen zukunftsfähig aufgestellt; gleichwohl besteht weiterer Handlungsbedarf. Mit der Agenda 2010 und dem Wechsel von einem Defined Benefit- auf ein Defined Contribution-System hat die Regierung Schröder den ersten, mit der Schuldenregel, der Rente...
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework … is augmented by endogenous strategic hiring behavior on the side of vacancyposting firms. Neglecting job competition, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262525
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Von der Lean Production zum "Lean Employment"
Rösner, Hans Jürgen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 74 (1994) 5, pp. 248-255
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Lohnspreizung und Effizienz
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2008
Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not necessarily fair. The widening of wage differentials that is currently observed is interpreted in this manner: Skill-biased technological progress increases demand for skilled work...
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