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Workforce reduction and firm performance: a comparison between French publicly-listed and non-listed companies, 1994-2000

Reynaud, Bénédicte; Degorre, Arnaud - HAL - 2007

authors analyse the causes and the consequences of a workforce reduction in 1996 - the year chosen as reference - on firms … both groups, headcount reduction occurs in less-productive and financially distressed firms, resorting to downsizing as a …

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How do Japanese and French firms in steel industry address the institutional change and the globalization? Employment adjustment and age management in a downsizing context

Lanciano, Emilie; Nitta, Michio - HAL - 2010

Steel industry has been engaged for a very long time in a downsizing process which has deeply transformed social and … technological level. After several downsizing operations, firms must adopt now more flexible strategies which integrate the aging of … workforce (with the retirement of baby- boom generation), and the question of transmission of skills. The age management …

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Higher Education Teachers e-skills and the Innovation Process

Youssef, Adel Ben; Youssef, Hamida Ben; Dahmani, Mounir - HAL - 2013

he purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the use of ICT, the accumulation of e-skills and innovation capacities of teachers. A Web questionnaire was designed in order to examine the e-skills and the daily practices of vocational high-school teachers in Tunisia. The results...

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Operational Competence Management Comparison of Industrial Frameworks

Grabot, Bernard; Houé, Raymond - HAL - 2009

Competence management is a quite recent but important topic addressed by nowadays companies for improving their organization. With examples coming from several industrial projects, we show the difficulty of defining a consistent competence management framework, and exhibit the inconsistencies...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Job Satisfaction and Quits

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Simonnet, … - HAL - 2007

We test the wealth maximization theory of quitting behavior on the German Socioeconomic Panel (1985-2003). With the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job against available alternatives, the propensity to stay in the present job is...

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Reported job satisfaction : What does it mean?

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - HAL - 2004

We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction. The main prediction that we test is that job satisfaction correlates with the wage gaps experienced in the past and present,...

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Financial development, entrepreneurship and job satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2008

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non- monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738704

Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Job satisfaction and co-worker wages: Status or signal?

Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - HAL - 2007

This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...

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