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Dekker, R (author), Kleinknecht, A.H. (author), Zhou, H (author)Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of innovative new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” labor markets enhances a firm’s new product sales, as do training efforts and highly...working paper 2010
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Kleinknecht, A. (author), Dekker, R. (author), Zhou, H. (author)Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of innovative new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” labor markets enhances a firm’s new product sales, as do training efforts and highly...journal article 2009
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Kleinknecht, A. (author), Lucidi, F. (author)During the past twenty years, Italy has realized changes in labour legislation, leading to a decentralization of wage bargaining and increased flexibility in labour relations. Both these factors have helped to curb wage growth and to enhance employment growth, but have also led to a crisis in Italian labour productivity growth. Our estimates...journal article 2009