Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...

The UK workforce is becoming older and many people over 50 years want and need to continue working. Limited knowledge is available regarding their needs or the organisational issues that will arise. Similarly, there is a paucity of information regarding current work system design for older...

Pension age, Longevity Trends, Morbidity Trends, Occupational morbidity; Health in later working life; Conclusions...

I would like to thank the organisers for their invitation and for giving me the opportunity to share with you the way a professional organisation sees age management in enterprises. The Swiss Association of Financial Employees (Swiss SEC) is the largest Swiss Oorganisation covering employees...

Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since itis not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empiricalexamination offers a different approach based on representative German data. Employees whoquit their job...

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the...

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governancenorm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density inthe U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from aformalized union norm to...