Similar Search Results

Littler, Craig R.; Innes, Peter - 2003

Organizations in many OECD economies have undergone a decade of downsizing, restructuring and transition. For example …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447909

Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532

Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition

Berger, Mark C.; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2001

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. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262569

Centralized bargaining, multi-tasking and work incentives

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1996

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265349

Regulatory choices and commitment: challenges for electricity market regulation in Kosovo

Kumkar, Lars - 2002

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265704

Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273105

Workforce reorganization and the worker

Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2011

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278696

Sovereign defaults: The price of haircuts

Cruces, Juan J.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2011

A main puzzle in the sovereign debt literature is that defaults have only minor effects on subsequent borrowing costs and access to credit. This paper comes to a different conclusion. We construct the first complete database of investor losses (haircuts) in all restructurings with foreign banks...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278882

Examining the Choice Between Tracking Stocks and Minority Carve-out and Their Relative Performances

He, Wei; Mukherjee, Tarun K.; Wei, Peihwang P. - 2006

controlled by their executives, and firms withgreater financial strength prior to restructuring. The former two are consistent …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468590

Evaluating the Economics of Power Market Restructuring in North Carolina

XIAOYUAN, GU - 2011

restructuring have been declined by governments for more than ten years and the legislation and utility commission of North Carolina … restructuring in NC from the perspective of suppliers using a case study of a coal-fired plant. It uses the Roxboro plant, which … related factors are necessary for the analysis about power market restructuring’s influence at the company scale. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475571