Besides wage offers, credentials like education, work experience and skill requirements are key screening tools for firms in their recruitment of new employees. This paper contributes some new evidence to a relatively tiny literature on firms’ recruitment behaviour. In particular, our analysis...

The purpose of this paper is to test some predictions from the literature concerning firms' choices of methods of pay for their managerial employees, and to provide estimates of the effects of performance pay on individual productivity using individual earnings as a mesure of productivity.

The aim of this paper is to test three theories for why firms introduce job rotation schemes: <p> employee learning, employer learning, and employee motivation. The earlier literature has made <p> use of either information about establishment characteristics or data coming from personnel <p> records of a...</p></p></p>

What are the roots of social capital and how can it be measured and built? Social capital is considered as a new production factor which must be added to the conventional concepts of human and physical capital. Social capital is productive because it increases the level of trust in a society and...

The transition of the »Old Communist« countries of East and Central Europe has been disappointingly slow given the amount of physical and human capital available at the start of the <p> transition. We argue that this slowness is caused by the lack of social capital, which is an <p> important factor...</p></p>

The recruitment of new employees is analysed in a theoritical model. It is shown that it can be optimal to implement requirements of formal qualifications for jobs, although it would be possible for the manager to find applicants who have a higher expected ability but no formal qualifications.

The transistion of the "Old Communist" countries of East and Central Europe has been disappointingly slow given the amount of physical and human capital available at the start of the transition. We argue that this slowness is caused by the lack of social capital, which is an important factor of...

In order to explain excess co-operation in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma game, we first question the standard assumption of stable and selfish preferences by introducing the concept of social capital. This analysis leads to a model that explains excess co-operation through an accumulation of...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standard method of measurement for social capital. Various <p> authors have investigated the influence of social capital on economic growth but still social capital has <p> not been measured in any satisfactory way. So far, each survey has used its own ad hoc...</p></p>

We hypothesize, that power centralisation in a political system leads to more corruption due to the <p> monopoly power status of bureaucrats. Corruption again would then lead to a lower level of social capital, <p> here measured as trust, and slow down economic growth even further. Indeed, when...</p></p>