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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2007
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465420
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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World
Chor, Davin - 2005
respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic … countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467079
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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?
Krueger, Dirk - 2003
In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469295
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Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior : The Importance of Non-Wage Job Values
Hall, Robert E. - 2015
We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed jobseekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the jobseekers made. Heterogeneity in non-wage job values or amenities among jobseekers and jobs is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456907
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The Disability Employment Puzzle : A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior
Ameri, Mason - 2015
People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a contributing factor. Following the method of Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003), new evidence is presented from a field experiment that sent applications in response to 6,016...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457109
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Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service : Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts
Ash, Elliott - 2014
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the intrinsic preferences of state appellate court judges. We construct a panel data set using published decisions from state supreme court cases merged with institutional and biographical information on all (1,636) state supreme court...
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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?
Kruse, Douglas L. - 2012
This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...
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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake
Karabay, Bilgehan - 2009
We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463601
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Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments
Levitt, Steven D. - 2009
The "Hawthorne effect," a concept familiar to all students of social science, has had a profound influence both on the direction and design of research over the past 75 years. The Hawthorne effect is named after a landmark set of studies conducted at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s. The first...
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Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early Twentieth Century America
Lee, Chulhee - 2009
This study explores how technological, organizational, and managerial changes affected the labor-market status of older male manufacturing workers in early twentieth century America. Industrial characteristics that were favorably related to the labor-market status of older industrial workers...
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