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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6006 Rita K. Almeida
Z. Bilgen Susanli
Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential Enforcement
This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 540–558)
J21, J24, K20
6005 René Böheim
Thomas Leoni
Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences
Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' ...
(published in: Sandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122(2), 553–581)
J22, I38
6004 Almas Heshmati
Subal C. Kumbhakar
A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2014, 23(1), 25-48. )
C33, C43, D24, O33, O47, O57
6002 Ronald P. Wolthoff
It's About Time: Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound implications for the market equilibrium. In the model, job offers and job ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (3), 839-867)
J64, J31, D83
6001 Nikolaj Malchow-Møller
Jakob R. Munch
Jan Rose Skaksen
Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121, 517-546. )
F22, J24, J31, J61, L2
6000 Ceren Ozgen
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data
Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:18)
D22, F22, O31
5999 Peter J. Kuhn
Marie Claire Villeval
Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants ...
(revised version published as 'Are Women More Attracted to Co-operation Than Men?' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 125, 115-140.)
C91, J16, J24, J31, M5
5998 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
The Process of Wage Adjustment: An Analysis Using Establishment-Level Data
This article presents a study of the influences on the factors that shape wage adjustments. The cost of living, comparability with other firms' wages, the fulfilment of collective agreements at ...
(published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2016, 37(2), 245-268)
J30, J40
5997 Oleg Badunenko
Daniel J. Henderson
Subal C. Kumbhakar
When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 863-892)
C14
5995 David J. Bjerk
Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood
This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 110-122)
J31, K42, I21
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