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Markets for Communist Human Capital: Returns to Education and Experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
(1997-10-01)
This research examines differences in earnings structure between Communist and post-Communist Czech Republic and Slovakia using four sets of similar micro-data. It presents hypotheses about how earnings dispersion, returns ...
Competitive Shocks and Industrial Structure: The Case of Polish Manufacturing
(1997-05-01)
A large number of countries have recently experienced competitive shocks: sudden increases in the role that market forces play in determining the evolution of various industries. In this paper, we study the implications ...
A comprehensive error compensation system for correcting geometric, thermal, and cutting force-induced errors
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1997-10)
A comprehensive error compensation system has been developed to correct geometric, thermal, and cutting force-induced errors on a turning centre. The basic approach to error compensation is proposed in this paper. The ...
COLLABORATING IN THE CAPTURE LAB: Computer Support for Group Writing
(Sage Publications, 1990)
Crosslinking chemistry for high-performance polymer networks
(Elsevier, 1994-11)
A new thermally reactive monomer has been designed and synthesized that brings novel crosslinking chemistry to high-performance polymers. This monomer (XTA) is a derivative of terephthalic acid and was based on the thermal ...
Durability Versus Concentration as an Explanation for Price Inflexibility
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-02)
We document the extent of price rigidity across United States manufacturing industries in the 1980s and early 1990s and compare rigidity across different phases of the business cycle. We measure price rigidity in three ...
Institutional Upheaval and Company Transformation in Emerging Market Economies
(1998-03-01)
Company transformation in central Europe is qualitatively different from that observed in the West because of upheaval in the institutional environment. Case data from & in the Czech Republic suggest that institutional ...
Do government subsidies increase the private supply of public goods?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-09)
We study three different models in which public goods are supplied by private contributions. In one of these models, tax-financed government subsidies to private contributions will definitely increase the equilibrium supply ...