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Steering towards the High Road:A Study of Human Resource Management inTwo Indian Garment Factories
Lake, Henrietta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost laborenvironment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paperpresents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resourcemanagement systems at two garment...
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on LeaverCharacteristics, Employment and Recidivism:An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program forsingle parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changesand their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reformsfrom the perspective of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861522
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The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity andUncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. Itis silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in thecomponents of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greateruncertainty faced by agents...
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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting
Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may adopt either individualized or collective wage...
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World:Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862581
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity?Evidence from U.S. States
Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms …-discharge protections by U.S. state courts over the last three decades to evaluatethe link between dismissal costs and productivity... …
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862087
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The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity : Evidence from Madeira Island
Budria, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after the completion of the training program) depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859736
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Development and Sources of Labor Productivityin Chinese Provinces
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
of labor productivity has gradually come to theforefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor … productivity in 31Chinese provinces during the period of 2000-2009. The labor productivity is investigatedthrough an examination at … defined. Theyare regressed on the level and the growth rate of labor productivity to shed light on theirrelationships …
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Labor Productivity and Vocational Training:Evidence from Europe
Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
rate of labor productivity inEurope between 1999 and 2005. We find that one extra hour of training per employeeaccelerates … the rate of productivity growth by around 0.55 percentage points... …
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