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In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...
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Leadership styles and human capital are important drivers of innovation processes. The way the leader interacts with … the organization members can pre-empt or leverage innovation processes as leaders influence, empower and motivate other … individuals in the achievement of their goals. Human capital is an important driver of innovation and competitiveness, as it will …
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focus on Portugal. The data on inputs and outputs of innovation were collected from the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2010 … Innovation Union Scoreboard 2010 report classifies Portugal as Moderate innovator and Germany and Sweden as Innovation leaders …. This research has found the marginal productivity of innovation in Portugal to be similar to the one of Germany and higher …
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This paper investigates the role of productivity as a determinant of the worker's retirement intentions. Using an overlapping generation framework, we analyze the retirement decision of a cohort of workers being ability heterogeneous. The labor market is endogenously segmented between workers...
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In der psychologischen Vertragsforschung wird davon ausgegangen, dass der psychologische Vertrag von Arbeitnehmern einem grundlegenden Wandel unterliegt: Ein eher an Langfristigkeit orientierter relationaler psychologischer Vertrag wird zunehmend abgelöst durch einen eher kurzfristorientierten...
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The belief that both the behavior and outcomes of students are affected by their peers is important in shaping education policy. I analyze two polar education systems -tracking and mixing- and propose several criteria for their comparison. I find that tracking is the system that maximizes...
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This paper presents the model of an economy subject to the mass conservation principle. The economic system is related to the environment by a flow of virgin materials into the economy, and by the diffusion of waste into the environment. Ecoefficiency contributes to reducing material waste in...
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In den südeuropäischen Krisenländern Griechenland, Portugal und Spanien erfolgen bereits merkliche Anpassungen, die …
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This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...
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