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Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality …

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization - innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of the medieval world. It comes at a time when...

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

the assessment of CE's development and performance. The main focus here is on providing a summary of the data analysis of …

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A review of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency technologies

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - 2014

Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...

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Effort and comparison income : experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); Masclet, David (contributor) - 2006

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

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Offshoring and labor markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...

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Firms' global engagement and management practices

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017

related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … abroad, is related to improving management performance in the sense of firms applying more structured management practices. …

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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009

aggregate performance. -- Firm heterogeneity ; productivity ; allocation of resources ; distortions …

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The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2023

reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age … players do. The effect of temperature on performance is smaller when there is more at stake. Our findings also suggest that …

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