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Incentives in competitive search equilibrium
Moen, Espen R.; Rosen, Asa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
analyze the effect of changes in the macro economic variables on the wage contract and the unemployment rate. We find that … private information may increase the responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in productivity. The incentive power … of the wage contracts is positively related to high productivity, low unemployment benefits and high search frictions. …
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A test between unemployment theories using matching data
Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928750
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Scale effects in markets with search
Petrongolo, B; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Reduced- form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746289
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Scale effects in markets with search
Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
higher post-unemployment wages but not faster matches, so aggregate matching functions are unaffected by scale. …Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, based on aggregate matching functions, may miss important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746460
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Social mobility, life chances, and the early years
Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children’s development may be less amenable to change after they enter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126160
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The interrelationship between HR, strategy and profitability in service SMEs: empirical evidence from the UK tourism hospitality and leisure sector
Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...
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Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment
Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to “shirking from home.” We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...
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Work-life balance, management practices and productivity
Bloom, Nick; Kretschmer, Tobias; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Do “Anglo-Saxon” management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousy work-life balance (WLB) for workers? Many critics of “neo-libéralisme sauvage” have argued that increased competition from globalisation is damaging employees’ quality of life. Others have...
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Can a work organization have an attitude problem? The impact of workplaces on employee attitude and economic outcomes
Bartel, Ann; Ichniowski, Casey; Kleiner, Morris; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees and whether any such ¿workplace attitudes¿ affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses of thousands of employees working in nearly two hundred branches to the emp loyee opinion survey...
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Employment and taxes
Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of...
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