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Lonkila, Markku - 2010

If Russia has become a market economy, how does it function on a grassroots level? In addition to market mechanisms …

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Sectoral distortions and service protection in Russia: A comparison with benchmark emerging markets and EU accession candidates

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2007

Recent empirical research on efficiency gains for Russia from WTO membership concludes that service trade … accession countries are also high and variant and thus cannot serve as a proxy for the 'economic distance of Russia to Brussels … services (i.e., energy distribution), Russia will probably not open its service sector for EU suppliers more than is required …

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Flexibilisierungspotenziale bei heterogenen Arbeitsmärkten: eine Einführung

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Hübler, Olaf; Kraft, Kornelius - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 41 (2008) 2/3, pp. 95-116

Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

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Public employment services and employers: how important are networks with firms?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2007

This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combined with an extensive survey of...

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Messianic expectations and paper-based networks: The role of the merchant

McKeon, Michael - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 52 (2023) 2, pp. 151-170

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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023

Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...

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Mentoring network and self-monitoring personality

Kim, Seong-kook; Kim, Min-jeong - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 1, pp. 42-54

Combining mentoring theory with social network theory, this study investigates the formation of mentoring networks. In a sample of 127 military officers, we test hypotheses regarding the relationship between self-monitoring personality and mentoring network characteristics. Protégé's...

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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...

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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...

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Contract enforcement, institutions and social capital: the Maghribi traders reappraised

Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2008

Economists draw important lessons for modern development from the medieval Maghribi traders who, according to Greif, enforced contracts multilaterally through a closed, private-order coalition'. We show that this view is untenable. The Maghribis used formal legal mechanisms and entered business...

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