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Innovation and self-employment
Ciarli, Tommaso; Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Savona, Maria - 2020
The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments … contributions that have looked at SE in relation to innovation strategies is surprisingly limited. General trends of SE in Europe …
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Wages and productivity in Argentinian manufacturing : a structuralist and distributional firm-level analysis
Gómez, María Celeste; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023
Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across sectors would enable emerging countries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229653
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Workers' awareness context in Italian 4.0 factories
Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2018
The study of the co-evolution of processes of technological innovation and the resulting organisational changes has …
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Unions, collective bargaining and firm performance
Laroche, Patrice - 2020
The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized countries, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. The purpose of this chapter is to review and assess the scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as...
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"Your driver is Didi and minutes away from your pick-up point" : understanding employee motivation in the gig economy of China
Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo; Chatwin, Chris - 2021
In recognition of the importance and expansion of the gig economy, largely in developed and BRICs economies, along with the growing literature surrounding it, this research contributes towards an empirical and conceptual understanding of how employee motivation and retention are managed by the...
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2022
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796887
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2021
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650393
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Heterogeneous shocks in the Covid-19 pandemic : panel evidence from Italian firms
Brancati, Emanuele; Brancati, Raffaele - 2020
This paper contributes to the policy discussion on Covid-19 by presenting real-time evidence on the magnitude of the shock for Italian firms. We take advantage of unique panel data on 7,800 companies between January 2020 {right before the pandemic{ and March of the same year {in the midst of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268419
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Nonmonetary awards and innovation : evidence from winning China's top brand contest
Luo, Lianfa; Cheng, Zhiming; Ye, Qingqing; Cheng, Yanjun; … - 2023
firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the … innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China … the China Top Brand Award on innovation outputs operate through higher government subsidies to winning firms. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432424
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Innovation strategies and productivity growth in developing countries : evidence from Pakistan
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2020
We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor … productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of … different innovations on labor productivity: Organizational innovation has the largest effect followed by process innovation …
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