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What enables some employee ownership firms to overcome the free rider problem andmotivate employees to improve performance? This study analyzes the role of humanresource policies in the performance of employee ownership companies, using employeesurvey data from 14 companies and a national sample...
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This paper offers a rational approach to the economics and psychology of fear and provides empirical evidence that …
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During the summer of 2000, the government will introduce a new system of pay and performance management for teachers. The Centre for Economic Performance is conducting a 'before-and-after' panel study of teachers and schools to ascertain its effects on motivation and performance. This paper...
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different patterns of turnover and productivity in these workplaces. …
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aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …
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productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …
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If the presence of a union in a workplace or firm raises the pay level, unless productivity rises correspondingly … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … to use theory to predict unambiguously any union effect on productivity because unions can both enhance and detract from …
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How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of …
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Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second … 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most … of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased effort. Additionally, the increase in effort …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...
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