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Resurgence of Selective Industrial Policy: What Turkey Needs

Yilmaz, Gokhan - 2011

Three decades of Turkish experience with nonselective industrial policies (consistent with neoliberal policy) clearly demonstrates that structural transformation in Turkish economy could not be achieved. In this paper, we have three motivations. Our first motivation is to discuss overall...

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Menstrual health, worker productivity and well-being among female Bangladeshi garment workers

Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2019

We conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on a sample of 1,000 female garment workers in three factories in Bangladesh, off ering access to free sanitary pads at work to 500 of the workers. We cross-randomised participation in information sessions for hygienic menstrual health care...

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Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?

Hoisl, Karin - 2007

inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has … different points of the performance distribution. Additionally, dummy variables are used to compare inventive performance prior … and in the aftermath of a move. Results reveal that inventors at the upper end of the performance distribution are better …

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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions...

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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity

Hoisl, Karin - 2006

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...

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Fairness aspects in personnel scheduling

Wolbeck, Lena Antonia - 2019

In industries like health care, public transport or call centers a shift-based system ensures permanent availability of employees for covering needed services. The resource allocation problem - assigning employees to shifts - is known as personnel scheduling in literature and often aims at...

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Privatization and regional distribution of manufacturing in Turkey

Dogruel, Fatma; Dogruel, Suut - 2011

The state owned enterprises were crucial in the early stage of industrial development in Turkey. They were producer of basic consumption goods and contributed the building the entrepreneurial understanding, and hence the development of the private sector. State owned enterprises have played key...

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Kazakhstan's cotton sector reforms since independence

Oshakbayev, Dauren; Taitukova, Regina; Petrick, Martin; … - 2018

and output fell substantially. We argue that the cotton sector performance after 2007 shows how ill-designed regulation …

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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction

Tansel, Aysıt; Gazioglu, Şaziye - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain.We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Brazil in Antarctica: The scientific and geopolitical importance of PROANTAR in the Brazilian strategic surrounding area

Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Leonardo Faria de Mattos, … - 2020

As the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica has more than 90% of its territory covered with ice and contains around 70% of all potable water in the world. Its proximity to South America is especially relevant to Brazil, which includes it in the country's strategic surrounding area....

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