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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes
Helper, Susan; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive … structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational … had an impact on productivity and profitability. We find that the UK plant's productivity and worker satisfaction was well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774713
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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
Freeman, Richard B.; Chi, Wei; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830981
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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?
Freeman, Richard B.; Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397142
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies
Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764664
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Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World
Edmans, Alex; Li, Lucius; Zhang, Chendi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the "Best Companies to Work For" in 14 countries. We show that employee satisfaction is associated with positive abnormal returns in countries with high labor market flexibility,...
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How Does China's New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?
Freeman, Richard B.; Li, Xiaoying - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
China's new Labor Contract Law took effect on January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts, strengthened labor protections for workers and contained penalties for firms that did not follow the labor code. This paper uses survey data of migrant workers in the Pearl...
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Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations
Appelbaum, Eileen; Hunter, Larry W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778442
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The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan
Kato, Takao - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
Using both quantitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from our own field research, this paper provides evidence on changes in participatory employment practices in Japan during the economic slowdown in the 1990s. Overall, consistent with the complementarity of such practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049786
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Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America
Levy, Frank; Temin, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We provide a comprehensive view of widening income inequality in the United States contrasting conditions since 1980 with those in earlier postwar years. We argue that the income distribution in each period was strongly shaped by a set of economic institutions. The early postwar years were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710532
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Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations
Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano; Schweiger, Helena - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....
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