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Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...
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The thesis analyzes monetary and labor policies under different market frictions. In the first part several versions of a microfounded dynamic general equilibrium model with monopolistic competitors in the product and/or labor market are derived and simulated. First of all, the monetary...
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During the ongoing post-communist economic transitions, the relative well-being of many people is changing rapidly, and governments are not well positioned to accurately measure individual living standards. Under such circumstances, continued price controls over basic consumer goods within the...
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This paper examined the male-female differentials in hourly earnings in Russia from 1996 to 2002. The gender wage gap did not alter significantly in the earlier years, a period characterized by economic instability, but as the economy recovered, the differential in earnings increased initially....
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A growing body of national-level survey evidence indicates that small-scale entrepreneurial activity has been an important engine of growth in post-socialist economies. Here we use a rich regional data set to obtain a statistical characterization of the relationship between entrepreneurial...
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This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...
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manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our …
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Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …
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Management texts have long been prescriptive regarding management practice, recommending managers do this, and managers … gone into the field to observe just what managers actually do. Change management literature tends to be prescriptive … empirical information discussing what effective change managers actually do. This paper aims to present empirical data from a …
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Dieser Bericht über den Arbeitsmarkt für hoch qualifizierte Fach- und Führungskräfte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wird im Rahmen der Informationspflicht der Bundesagentur für Arbeit veröffentlicht.Zur Analyse dieses Teilarbeitsmarktes werden herangezogen:a) Die Statistik über...
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