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companies to renewable energies companies in Germany. We moreover find that the joint market capitalization of these firms has …
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Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplacelevel availability for five … availability drastically overstate the extent to which employees perceive that family-friendly are accessible to them personally …
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' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and qualitative methods we find that political connections significantly … influence the investment decisions of entrepreneurs and the performance of their firms. In general, a hybrid political order … entrepreneurs engage in bribery, and who obtain government contracts alleviate electricity problems and perform better. …
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We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...
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By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …
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country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...
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While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms … traits on performance. We find that more neurotic subjects perform worse, and that more conscientious individuals perform … on labor market outcomes operates through productivity. In addition, we find evidence that gender and university major …
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teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …
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records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …
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