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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299472
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325305
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Assessing the advantages of EMU-enlargement for the EU and the accession countries: a comparative indicator approach
Schweickert, Rainer - 2001
optimality in comparison with a reference group of the four EMU-member countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332956
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Verfahren und Kosten von Betriebsverlagerungen in ausgewählten europäischen Ländern: Gutachten im Auftrag der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Zachert, Ulrich - 2008
Die Verlagerung der Bochumer Produktion des Handyherstellers Nokia nach Rumänien hat in der Öffentlichkeit für erhebliches Aufsehen gesorgt.Die Ausarbeitung, die auf einem Gutachtenauftrag beruht, untersucht normativ unter Einbeziehung der Faktenlage, wie zeit- und kostenaufwändig eine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892733
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Wage Mobility : Do Institutions Make a Difference? : A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2004
This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to … discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more regulated and centralized in Portugal, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261846
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The determinants of firm start-up size: a comparison of Ireland and Portugal
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Ruane, Frances P. - 2000
In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado, 1996). To allow for firm heterogeneity between firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265448
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe: an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269046
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: is Portugal an Outlier?
Baptista, Rui; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004
ownership rates, and unemployment in Portugal in the period from 1972-2002. It concludes that Portugal has been a relative … discrepancies. The differences between observed levels of unemployment for Portugal and those predicted by a model based on OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276803
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2008
their outside option. Empirical results for Denmark, Portugal and the United States show that Denmark is closest to the … first-best outcome, while Portugal and the United States deviate in different ways. Coordination in wage bargaining and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276828
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2008
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276859