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Sector-level bargaining and possibilities for deviations at company level : France
Ramos Martín, Nuria - Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies, … - 2011
The right to collective bargaining is set out in the 1972 French Labour Code. In the last decades, collective bargaining has expanded, partly as a result of government initiatives. The importance of sectoral bargaining increased with the adoption of the 1982 Auroux laws, which obliged the...
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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume VIII, tape 2
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1990
During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "Business and Management: The Changing Corporation" he discusses: joint alliances and market agreements, parent companies and their subsidiaries, changing technology and markets, seniority and Japanese companies, mutual funds and pensions, mortgages,...
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Understanding the Spanish business innovation gap : the role of spillovers and firms' absorptive capacity
López García, Paloma; Montero Montero, José Manuel - 2010
This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to assimilate them and disparities in some human resource management practices are related with the decision to innovate of Spanish firms. In order to do this, we employ data from the...
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MOTIVE FÜR DEN KAUF EINER HEIZUNG - ERGEBNISSE EINER VERBRAUCHERBEFRAGUNG MIT DEM SCHWERPUNKT "HOLZPELLETHEIZUNGEN"
Decker, Thomas - 2007
Paper prepared for presentation at the 7th Industrieforum PelletsStuttgart (Germany), 10th October 2007 …Compared to other heating markets the wood pellets market is quite young and small in Germany. Nevertheless it is a … within the scope of this project. Therefore people in different parts of Germany have been asked about their heating system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442671
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Gender Equality in Reconciling Work and Childcare in South Korea
Lee, Kook Hee - 2009
procuring full remuneration throughout the leave period. However, the mandatory maternity leave system in Germany is not an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467525
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Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2005
of uncertainty measures based on GSOEP data from Eastern (and for comparison purposes also Western) Germany for the years … Eastern Germany during its transition than in Western Germany and had a highly nonlinear effect on the probability of a birth … uncertainty in East Germany in the transition could have contributed significantly to the sharp fall and unusually low level of …
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Interest Rate Pass-Through in Central and Eastern Europe: Reborn from Ashes Merely to Pass Away?
Égert, Balázs; Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesus; Reininger, Thomas - 2006
In this study, we seek to better understand the interest rate pass-through in five Central and Eastern European countries -- the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, the CEE-5. Our pass-through estimates for several retail rates are generally lower than those reported in the...
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Price Promotions and Brand Loyalty: Empirical Evidence for the German Breakfast Cereals Market
Empen, Janine; Loy, Jens-Peter; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2011
Price promotions are important marketing activities for (food) retailers; brand loyalty is a major requisite to foster brands' assets. Several theoretical papers have analyzed the relationship between price promotions and brand loyalty resulting in mixed or perhaps contradictory outcomes; only a...
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Explaining German imports of olive oil: evidence from a gravity model
Kavallari, Aikaterini; Maas, Sarah; Schmitz, P. Michael - 2008
In this study the case of olive oil imports of Germany is examined since olive oil is a traditional Mediterranean … commodity and Germany is the biggest importer in the EU. A gravity model has been employed so as to analyse those factors that … Mediterranean Partner country of the EU has the highest impact on trade flows to Germany, thus supporting further Euromediterranean …
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Income Diversification of Farm Households: Relevance and Determinants in Germany
Pieniadz, Agata; Renner, Swetlana; Rathmann, Christoph; … - 2009
study is to identify factors that determine income diversification in Germany. An econometric model has been estimated based …
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