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Do friends and relatives really help in getting a good job?

Pellizzari, Michele - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

firms' recruitment strategies. In labour markets where employers invest largely in formal recruitment activities, matches … theoretical model is used to show that employers invest more in recruitment for high productivity jobs and for positions that … require considerable training. The empirical predictions of the theory are successfully tested using industry-level data on …

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Outsourcing and the rise in services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1947-2007, and on the rise in services in particular. Roughly 40% of the growth of the service sector comes from professional and business services. This is an unusual industry as more than 90%...

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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing

Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Since Adam Smith’s time, the division of labor in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division of labor has raised the demand for clerical office...

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Catching a wave: the adoption of voice and high commitment workplace practices in Britain: 1984-1998

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...

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What do unions do to executive compensation?

Gomez, Rafael; Tzioumis, Konstantinos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

In this paper we estimate the relation between union presence within a firm and CEO compensation, using a unique panel of publicly listed companies for the period 1992 to 2001. We find that, on average, union presence: 1) is significantly associated with lower levels of total CEO compensation;...

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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing

Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The Division of Labour, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing* Since Adam Smith's time, the division of labour in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an...

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Effort and comparison income: experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort, combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with the analysis of multi-country ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others’ incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The...

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Direct and indirect links between organizational work-home culture and employee well-being

Beauregard, T. A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The extent to which an organization's culture exhibits support for its employees' efforts to balance work and personal responsibilities has been shown to influence a number of work- and home-related outcomes. This study tests a model with a mix of mediated and moderated relationships to...

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