Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms
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Stochastic production frontier; flexible work hours; efficiency;All these keywords.
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- L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
- D29 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Other
- M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
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