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Reassessing the Productivity Impact of Employee Involvement and Financial Incentives
Wolf, Elke; Zwick, Thomas - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 60 (2008) 2, pp. 160-181
Employee involvement and financial incentives are often praised as effective means for increasing firm productivity. We … assess the productivity effects of these human resource practices by accounting for the main sources of estimation bias … employee involvement raises establishment productivity, but financial incentive systems do not. An important result is that …
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Land Certification and International Migration: Evidence from Mexico
Valsecchi, Michele - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
In this paper we ask whether there is a relationship between property rights and international migration. In order to identify the impact of property rights, we consider a country-wide land certification program, which took place in Mexico throughout the 1990s, and complemented the 1992 Agrarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470234
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Institutions Matter : The Case of Vietnam
Tran, Thi Bich; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363666
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Corporate and public governances in transition: the limits of property rights and the significance of legal institutions
Nivet, Jean-Francois - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 1 (2004) 2, pp. 155-173
Post-socialist transition raises crucial issues about the institutional setting of a market economy. The priority has …
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Twenty years of land reforms in Central and Eastern Europe: state of play and outlook
Bignebat, Céline; Latruffe, Laure - Laboratoire Études et Recherches Économiques … - 2009
exacerbated by the agricultural transition’s land component. …
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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are … more likely than other owners to invest in productivity enhancing projects and to vertically integrate firms to capture the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763656
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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - EconWPA - 2005
, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are … more likely than other owners to invest in productivity enhancing projects and to vertically integrate firms to capture the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407700
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From Open-Access to Individual Quotas: Disentangling the Effects of Policy Reform and Environmental Changes in the Norwegian Coastal Cod Fishery
Diekert, Florian; Lund, Kristen; Schweder, Tore - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2014
Understanding the eect of introducing property rights to natural resources is central in economics, but empirical analysis is frustrated by the complexity of socioecological systems. We construct a detailed bio-economic model of the Norwegian coastal cod shery, which was closed after 1989, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819025
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The "Invisible Role" of Business Groups is made Evident
Rungi, Armando - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2013) May
coordination reveal to be important drivers of productivity and dominate on choices of vertical integration. More in general, here … explain the endurance of productivity gaps across industries and countries and the phenomenon of Business Groups becomes even …
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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance
Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
complexity and productivity which dominates the already known correlation between vertical integration and productivity. Results …
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