We explore the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap using a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private sector firms merged to a large matched employer-employee database. Self-managed teams, project organisation and job rotation schemes are...

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>

In this contribution, we examine the interrelation between corporate age structures and firm performance. In particular, we address the issues, whether firms with young rather than older employees are successful and whether firms with homogeneous or heterogeneous workforces are doing well....

Existing tests of tournament theory have recently been criticized <p> for their failure to distinguish tournaments from other theories that <p> have similar effects like standards and marginal productivity theory <p> (Gibbs, 1994, 1996; Prendergast, 1999). In this paper, we propose a <p> series of empirical...</p></p></p></p>