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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...

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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration

Kuhn, Peter J.; McAusland, Carol - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers’ tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004

Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...

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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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Social Networks

de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling

Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether … signalling effect of individual and institutional quality of study on individual horizontal match quality. First, based on a …

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The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...

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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Ibsen, Rikke; Rosholm, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary … plausible estimates of the signalling effect. It is established that the positive ability signal of being displaced due to a … previously been ignored in the empirical analysis of the signalling hypothesis such as local labour market conditions, the sector …

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