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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; Fok, Yin King - 2009

This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...

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Age structure of the workforce and firm performance

Grund, Christian (contributor); … - 2005

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....

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Examining the relationship between employee resistance to changes in job conditions and wider organisational change : evidence from Ireland

Cronin, Hugh; McGuinness, Séamus - 2014

implementation of firm-level policies aimed at increasing competitiveness and workforce flexibility. Key finding arising from the … research is that while workforce resistance to job-related change often forces firms to seek alternative means of achieving … incidence of workforce resistance to changes in job conditions. …

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The role of employees’ age for the relation between job autonomy and sickness absence

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2020

We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an inverse relation between employees' job autonomy and days...

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Monetary rewards, hierarchy level and working hours as drivers of employees' self-evaluations

Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023

In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...

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The use of performance appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior

Grund, Christian; Nießen, Anna - 2024

Presenteeism behavior, i.e. working despite illness, is a common phenomenon wordwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relation between the use of company performance appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior. We use...

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How useful is the concept of skills mismatch?

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2017

The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...

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