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One or many knowledge production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata

Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2005

subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg's test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …

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The UK's productivity puzzle

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2015

: this has had no discernible impact on the rate of innovation. There is no impact of recession on either the number of HRM …

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? : evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014

Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...

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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes : the case of creatine

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2014

Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...

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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...

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Employee stock purchase plans : gift or incentive? ; evidence from a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure: a text-similarity measure

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2021

This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al. (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in order to...

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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options seems to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious. But owners may find it hard to distinguish poor performance from bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and...

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Does employing older workers affect workplace performance?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Gray, Helen; Stokes, Lucy - 2019

Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has implications for workplace performance. We find no significant association between changes in the proportion of older workers employed and changes in workplace performance. We find some...

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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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