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This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
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The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators it reports an inverse relationship between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender...
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We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...
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. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …. In this paper we analyse the strategic interactions across subteams created by a two-level team structure, in order to … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …
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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 … precise when the provision of team-based incentives crowds out the productivity enhancing effect of social connections under …
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