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How does the social distance between an employee and a manager affect employee competition for a reward?
Dutcher, Glenn - 2011
This study examines how employees internalize differences in social distance between themselves and their managers when they are competing for a reward given by the manager. In an employer/employee relationship, this difference in social distance between the employer and the various employees...
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Unemployment insurance generosity: a trans-atlantic comparison
Pallage, Stéphane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008
United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269178
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271770
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The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition: Evidence from a natural experiment
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Ohio's ballot access laws as a natural experiment to overcome the endogeneity problem … decrease in Ohio's petition requirements resulted in major parties facing a signifcant increase in competition from third party …
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Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Kimmel, Jean; Eberts, Randall W. - 1997
This paper presents findings from a net impact evaluation of the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program. The JOBS program … recipients who met certain criteria. The Ohio JSRP was an activity pursued by some JOBS program clients in Ohio to fulfill their … had participated in the Ohio JSRP program between its inception in 1990 and summer 1995, the time period for this study …
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The Clinton era and the U.S. business cycle : what did change?
Heilemann, Ullrich; Münch, Heinz Josef - 2005
The 1990s were the most prosperous decade in U.S. economic history. The paper analyses to which extent this period fits into preceding cyclical experience. This is done by classifying the period 1991-12 to 2000-12 with the help of a 4-phase classification scheme based on multivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296674
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Confidence and the Erosion of Confidence: Economic Functions and Effects
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2004
wesentlichen ökonomischen Auswirkungen des Vertrauens auf das Wirtschaftswachstum, den Konjunkturzyklus, die Einkommensverteilung …
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Education, Research, and Economic Growth
Caspari, Volker; Rubart, Jens; Rehme, Günther - 2004
It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades. Although the German economy has still to overcome the burden of the reunification in 1990 it is shown that this burden might be only one reason of this decline. In this study we...
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Der geborgte Aufschwung: Die wirtschaftspolitische Bilanz der Regierung Bush 2001-2004
van Scherpenberg, Jens - 2004
Die Regierung Bush hält sich zugute, seit ihrem Amtsantritt Anfang 2001 eine schwierige wirtschaftliche Lage durch aktive Wirtschaftspolitik erfolgreich überwunden zu haben. Deutliche Steuersenkungen und die Inkaufnahme eines massiven Defizits des Bundeshaushalts - bei stark steigenden...
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