Foreign Investors in The Netherlands: Heterogeneous Employment and Productivity Effects

Recent academic research suggests that the effects of inward foreign direct investment for productivity and employment may vary across foreign investors with different characteristics. Using a newly created dataset that integrates micro-level information from The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and Statistics Netherlands, this paper explores the role of several of these characteristics, including e.g. the country of origin, activities and tasks, age and strategic role of foreign affiliates in The Netherlands in the 2000–2007 period. Our analysis shows that important employment and productivity differences exist for nearly all these dimensions.     

金融管制理论和方法的演进

管制经济学通常包括经济性管制、社会性管制和反托拉斯管制三大部分。其中经济性管制研究的是自然垄断领域和存在严重信息不对称领域,后者典型的表现形式如金融业。一般的管制经济学因金融业内容丰富,需要独立的研究而较少涉及。而多数金融业管制研究侧重于监管的层面。文章从管制思想的演进、管制理论对金融业的实证研究、金融业管制经济分析和金融管制方法最新进展四个方面对金融管制经济理论进行分析和评述。     

人本管理——饭店业应对员工流失的必然之选

中国旅游业发展的成功,也带来了饭店业的欣欣向荣。在饭店业界人士大谈其经营成功之道时,饭店员工流失严重这一问题也成为他们关注的热点。如何降低饭店员工的流失率,让饭店走上健康发展之路,是每一个饭店管理者应该深思的问题。也许,采取人本管理才是他们留住高素质员工的必然之选。     

How a Reduction of Standard Working Hours Affects Employment Dynamics

December 1, 1996 a new law was implemented in Portugal to gradually reduce the standard workweek from 44 to 40 h. We study how this mandatory reduction affected employment through job creation and job destruction. There was considerable regional, sectoral and firm-size variation in the share of workers who were affected by the working hours reduction. We exploit this variation to assess the impact of the workweek reduction. We find evidence that the working hours reduction had a positive effect on employment through a fall in job destruction.