organizational changes and worker skills, contribute to better performance in Canadian firms. …

firms as either growing or declining. We then asked how differences in competencies were related to the performance of firms. …

This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation … for which they were applying. The findings show that job-seeker performance is highest and effort is lowest among those … assigned the lowest employment risk (a guaranteed alternative job), and performance is lowest and effort highest among those …