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Trends in Restructuring NMS Regional Economies as Responses to Transformation, Crisis and EU Membership. A Spotlight on Suceava County
Ileanu, Bogdan-Vasile; Goschin, Zizi; Constantin, … - 2014
The current research has concentrated on the following questions: What are the trends in restructuring Suceava …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400159
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Social Economy, Entrepreneurship and local development: the case of 'Arcturos' environmental centre
Trikka, Margarita; Charitoudi, Georgia - 2013
The concept and the activities of social economy are not particularly developed in Greece. Several institutions have made some attempts to change that during the past few years but they failed due to the lack of the proper and flexible institutional frame that would administratively and...
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Regional Entrepreneurial Heritage in a Socialist and Post-socialist Economy
Wyrwich, Michael - 2010
after the transition towards a market economy. Astonishingly those regions with a high share of traditional manufacturing … industries in 1989 have higher start-up rates in manufacturing even more than 10 years after transition and a vast structural … the "natural experiment" of four decades of socialism and one of the most severe industrial restructuring and decline of …
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Crisis and conversion of industrial port complex: the case of Gdansk (Poland)
Lorek, Maria - 2015
The Interference of liberal principles and the reintroduction of a market economy have changed the structure and the organization of the productive system of centrally planned and administered countries (NOVE, 1981; ANDREFF, 2007). The new forms of industrial organization, which are the source of...
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Individual vs. Collective Bargaining in the Large Firm Search Model
Bauer, Christian; Lingens, Jörg - 2010
We analyze the welfare and employment effects of different wage bargaining regimes. Within the large firm search model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270074
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Product Market Competition and the Minimum Wage
Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kroeger, Hanna - 2010
This study analyzes employers' support for the introduction of minimum wages in order to improve their competitive position. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in eight industries in the German service sector, we find some evidence that high-productivity employers support minimum...
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Variable Pay, Industrial Relations and Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Heywood, John S. - 2013
We use a representative sample of German establishments to show that those with foreign ownership are more likely to use performance appraisal, profit sharing and employee share ownership than are those with domestic ownership. Moreover, we show that works councils are associated with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329356
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Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions
Effrosyni, Adamopoulou; Diez Catalan, Luis; Villanueva, … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363798
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Do Migrants React to Infrastructure Difference between Urban and Rural Areas?:Development and Application of an Extended Harris-Todaro Model
Sasaki, Komei; Issah, Ismail; Khan, Tariq - 2004
Developing an extended model of the basic Harris-Todaro model of rural-urban migration, we analyze the effects of infrastructure availability together with the time-tested income effects whilst accommodating government behaviour through the provision and financing of infrastructure. Both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318724
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Industry and the urge to cluster: A study of the informal sector in India
Mukim, Megha - 2010
The distribution of economic activity over physical space - economic geography - is central to economic development. Geographical variations in industrialisation are the primary factor affecting geographical variations in incomes. And so, the question of what drives industry to locate in one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332748