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The Role of the Government in Entrepreneurship Development: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dzafic, Zijad; Babajic, Amra - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 14 (2016) 1, pp. 68-79
small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This is especially important in the transition economies. The creation of a new … SME sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as a transition country may play an important role in the process of economic …
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Primum vivere ... industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-15
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...
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Foreign direct investment and employment in transition economies
Estrin, Saul - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
. Transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) faced a desperate need to join the global economy, to improve their … CEE, and for some resource-rich transition countries (e.g. Russia and some of Central Asia), but primarily delivered … significant benefits (e.g. employment) for the former. FDI arrived much later to other transition countries (e.g. the former …
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Employees’ entrepreneurial contributions to firms in Russia, 1995-2004
Croucher, Richard; Rizov, Marian - In: Human Resource Management Journal 21 (2011) 4, pp. 415-431
This article examines how employee self-reported entrepreneurial contributions evolved in firms operating in Russia in 1995-2004 and whether changes can be explained by Akerlof's theory of implicit gift exchange in labour contracts. We find that these contributions were indeed influenced by wage...
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Structural or cyclic? Labor markets in recessions
Lazear, Edward P. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing debate. One view suggests there are fundamental changes in the labor market that imply a long-term higher rate of unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy...
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Labor Force Internationalization. Unemployment and Emigration in Bacau and Vaslui Counties of Romania
Munteanu, Roxana Florina; Moraru, Andreea - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 2, pp. 309-316
The article analyses the relations between unemployment and emigration in Bacau and Vaslui counties, in a comparative outlook. The article starts with an analysis on Romania situation concerning the two phenomena. The second part brings forward the two counties, Bacau and Vaslui, trying to...
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Vaslui county in the national context: Evolution and effects of mobility of the working age population
Munteanu, Roxana Florina - In: CES Working Papers 9 (2017) 2, pp. 123-138
The following paper shows the transition from internal to external migration and places Vaslui County into a spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017331
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Physicians' brain drain: Investigating the determinants to emigrate through empirical evidence
Anastasiou, Evgenia; Anagnostou, Georgia; Theodossiou, … - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 13 (2020) 2, pp. 83-92
Purpose: The economic crisis in Greece has caused widespread suffering both in society and the economy. Among other things, new forms of geographical mobilities emerged highlighting the country's inability to retain a scientifically skilled workforce. One of the most important scientific...
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Ausbildungsmarkt unter Druck: die aktuelle Entwicklung und deren Antworten darauf
Lagemann, Andreas; Wedemeier, Jan - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 9, pp. 669-672
The number of new apprenticeship training contracts has been declining for years. The decline can be explained by a variety of factors. It can initially be assumed that the economic development due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated loss of training places offer an explanation. However,...
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The organisational commitment of workers in OECD countries
Clark, Andrew E. - In: Management Revue 22 (2011) 1, pp. 8-27
The degree to which workers identify with their firms, and how hard they are willing to work for them, would seem to be key variables for the understanding of both firm productivity and individual labour-market outcomes. This paper uses repeated crosssection ISSP data from 1997 and 2005 to...
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