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"As Rare as a Panda": How Facial Attractiveness, Gender, and Occupation Affect Interview Callbacks at Chinese Firms
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Lei, Lei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over …
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
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CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China’s securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China’s corporate governance will …
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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …
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Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Sequential analyses of the major workplace data sets available to British researchers - the Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys (WIRS/WERS) - have revealed shifts in some previously solid relationships between union presence and a variety of establishment performance indicators. So...
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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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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
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Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; McNabb, Robert; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include...
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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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