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Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Parks in Ethiopia

Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023

institutions during three political regimes and assesses the industrial sector's performance across these different regimes …

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A Model for Industrial Development of the Federal Region of Kurdistan: Science and Technology Policy, Instruments and Institutions

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time - the Japanese as a leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the industrialization process in these two economies which have served as a model for development in many...

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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and …

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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?

Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703831

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2016

has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …

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Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …

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The Effect of Age Diversity in Groups on Peer Evaluations and Individual Performance

Görlitz, Katja; Sels, Tim - 2021

This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being … how age diverse groups affect individual performance in professional golf tournaments. The results show that peer and … superior evaluations as well as individual performance are lower in age diverse groups. Further evidence suggests that these …

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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments

de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2020

This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...

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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...

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