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This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...
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How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one...
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We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...
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Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...
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This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...
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What enables some employee ownership firms to overcome the free rider problem and motivate employees to improve performance? This study analyzes the role of human resource policies in the performance of employee ownership companies, using employee survey data from 14 companies and a national...
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This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …
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and the New Taiwan dollar. For these currencies, interest rates and money supplies move to restore equilibrium. In ex post … simulation, the out-of-sample fit of the estimated models is relatively good for the won, Singapore and New Taiwan dollars, and …
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data collected in the manufacturing censuses in South Korea and Taiwan to study the linkages between a producer's total … importance of selection and learning forces. In Taiwan, transitions of firms in and out of the export market reflect systematic …, the evidence of self-selection on the basis of productivity is much weaker. In addition, unlike Taiwan, we find no …
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The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less …
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