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Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up.

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

performance by union companies. Two industries - automotives and airlines - are used to illustrate these points. If worker …

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance … - we reach one central point of agreement and one intriguing shared insight. First, performance appraisal is negatively … monitoring and performance pay may be complementary. However, consonant with the disparate results from the wider literature …

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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may adopt either individualized or collective wage...

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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

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Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

MacLeod, W. Bentley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that less employment protection...

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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Farber, Henry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...

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