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model, we use novel and detailed productivity and survey data from nine large firms in three industries: call … profits per worker and the difference is driven by referrals from high productivity workers. …
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We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...
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understanding a number of issues in macro and labor economics, including changes in wage inequality, productivity, life …
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When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager is less well acquainted with these talents this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a...
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This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
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productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …
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productivity. Our results show that the marriage premium also holds for baseball players, where married players earn up to 16 … productivity between married and nonmarried players. We discuss possible reasons why employers may discriminate in favor of married …
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We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large … observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover on productivity. The productivity-maximizing rates of FTE-adjusted quits … and hires are each about 20% per year, improving productivity by 2.5% compared to the zero turnover level. We explain the …
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This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...
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-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …
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