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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal Monitor Survey, we compare the pattern of turnover with a...
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...
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The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy : The Case of China
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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Unequal Consequences of Covid-19 Across Age and Income : Representative Evidence from Six Countries
Belot, Michele - 2020
been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …
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The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships : Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
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Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training
Picchio, Matteo - 2010
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market...
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Dependent Forms of Self-Employment in the UK : Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-Employment
Böheim, René; Muehlberger, Ulrike - 2021
We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that these dependent self-employed lose their rights under labour law, receive less favourable benefits...
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Team Incentives : Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team composition. We present evidence from a field experiment...
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Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from a Government Agency
Burgess, Simon M. - 2012
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
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