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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity
Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
, and increased communication with co-workers. Being involved in team work and job rotations as well as supporting human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700869
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125872
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646291
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Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
While many firms compete through the development of new technologies and products, it is well known that new-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies consistently find a negative association between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822226
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796455
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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims, we apply robust regression analysis to estimate the models to test 5 research hypotheses using 263 firm level data located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results...
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On the "Adverse Selection" of Organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
According to New Institutional Economics, two or more individuals will found an organization, if it leads to a benefit compared to market allocation. A natural consequence will then be internal rent seeking. We discuss the interrelation between profits, rent seeking and the foundation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822215
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Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper discusses the optimal firm size in the presence of influence activities, and the level of individual rent-seeking dependent on the economic situation of the firm. Since firm size has a discouraging effect on the level of individual rent-seeking but also a quantity effect as the number...
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