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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...

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Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Kato, Takao; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a …

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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...

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Means and Ends: A Comparative Study of Empirical Methods For Investigating Governance and Performance

Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 1999

Scholars within different disciplines employ a wide range of empirical approaches to understanding how, why and with what consequences government is organized. We first review recent statistical modeling efforts in the areas of education, job-training, welfare reform and drug abuse treatment and...

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Regulatory Agencies: Impact on Firm Performance and Social Welfare

Estache, Antonio; A. Rossi, Martin - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2009

We explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector …

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CEO Turnover in the Italian Financial Market

Barucci, Emilio; Bianchi, Carlo; Frediani, Mirko - In: Giornale degli Economisti 65 (2006) 2, pp. 127-154

turnover rate with no effect on the ceo turnover-performance relation. …

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The role and the performance of public sector in the European Union

Donath, Liliana; Milos, Marius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The role of the state is finally the decision of the citizens. The government, being a result of elections, can provide more or less protection and increase or decrease expenditures. Anyway for achieving goals and for being performant the state definitly has to promote a good governance. Good...

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A modern approach on modeling the cost behavior by ABC/ABM method

Iacob, Constanta; Giurca Vasilescu, Laura; Dracea, Raluca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The article intend to prove that the traditional methods of cost calculation do not correspond anymore to the actual principles imposed by the global economical competition which is focused more likely on the structure expenses, the conception period, the information sources and the value. The...

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Performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions

Mersland, Roy; Strøm, Reidar Øystein - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We trace the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFI … characteristics, ownership type, competition and regulation on the MFI's outreach to poor clients and its financial performance. The … shareholder firms in financial performance and outreach is found. …

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