on employment, public spending on childcare and the cost, affordability and quality of childcare. The report also …

Data presented in this report support and complement previous analyses on quality of working life in Slovenia, which … quality information. They should seek to improve working conditions and thus reduce exhaustion and stress levels in the …

On 12 April 2012, a conference on 'Quality of work and Employment: A policy tool towards inclusive and sustainable … than 20 years now, were discussed, focusing on the current challenges for quality of work and employment and the need for a …

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently … economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become … better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries’ of local legislators …

reexamines the debate as to whether firms use price or advertising to signal quality and whether advertising has pro- or anti …-competitive effects. We show that the signaling theory strongly predicts that advertising signals quality if price rivalry prevails, in … contrast to single-firm models. Under price rivalry, price signaling prevails for sufficient inter-brand quality differences …

We show that a private label is an indirect mean to contract on quality in a vertical structure, and is signed by a … downstream firm only when its bargaining power is high. When its bargaining power decreases, sharing the fixed cost of quality in … upstream who in turn under-invests in quality. Public intervention through a minimum quality standard may fail to restore the …

The role of grading is to disclose the quality of individual units of output. Each firm produces high and low quality … units in different proportions. Quality specification is a choice variable and, all producers have access to the same … effect on the quality of output that undergoes grading. Also, surprisingly, it finds that in response to changes in the cost …

In the literature on firm strategy and product differentiation, consumer price-quality trade-offs are sometimes … represented using consumer “value maps”. These involve the geometric representation of indifferent price and quality combinations … as points along curves that are concave to the “quality” axis. In this paper, it is shown that the value map for price-quality …