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Agricultural cooperatives have been restructuring, by way of mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures, and strategic … be gained concerning the factors being considered by cooperative managers when making restructuring decisions and, second …
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We look at the effects of restructuring on three issues: (a) economic surplus and environmental quality, (b) the cost … the SIP Call region. We find that without the NOx cap, nationwide restructuring leads to higher NOx and carbon emissions … associated with achieving a seasonal or an annual NOx cap is moderately higher with nationwide restructuring than without, but …
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We investigate the cost-effectiveness and distributional effects of a revenue-raising auction, grandfathering, and a generation performance standard as alternative approaches for distributing carbon emission allowances in the electricity sector. We solve a detailed national electricity market...
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Organizations in many OECD economies have undergone a decade of downsizing, restructuring and transition. For example …
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We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
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that schooling and training are complementary but become more substitutable in a restructuring environment. Additional … skills may increase as uncertainty is resolved and restructuring proceeds. …
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The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking - for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...
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This paper aims at describing the choices to be made in selecting and implementing a reform model for the electricity industry and to derive some implications for the situation in Kosovo. The paper argues that the appropriate reform model depends on the circumstances in the considered...
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the … restructuring process: advances in production technologies promoting technological task complementarities, advances in information …
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In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...
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