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Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises
Tan, Hong; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
of some industrial skills coexisting with reports of skill shortages by many enterprises. This paper uses data from the … demand for skills over time, and the potential reasons for reported staffing problems and skill shortages, including labor … turnover, compensation policies and the inhibiting effects of labor regulations. It discusses in-service training as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822530
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884235
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments: The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763770
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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
“skill-weights” view, allows all skills to be general in that there are other firms that use the each of the skills. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703682
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The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control
Carpenter, Christopher S.; Dobkin, Carlos; Warman, Casey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
is known about mechanisms. We use the universe of Canadian mortality records to document that Canada's Minimum Legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105048
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Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
valuation methodology that incorporates these dynamic factors produces considerably smaller compensation valuations than those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822547
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Transition on the Shop Floor – The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97
Köllo, János - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822764
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How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives
Marchegiani, Lucia; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rizzolli, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In our simple model the supervisor: i) cannot observe the agent's effort; ii) aims at inducing the agent to exert high effort; but iii) can only offer rewards based on performance. Since performance is only stochastically related to effort, evaluation errors may occur. In particular, deserving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416946
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001089
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Consistency in Organization (updated)
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251371