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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production : evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael - 2010
the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009013039
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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017
literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625327
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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021
reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …
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Spillovers and substitutability in production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023
to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers …
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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain : evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
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The impact of the recent expansion of the EU on the UK labour market
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2008
We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...
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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J. (contributor); Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2008
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
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Services offshoring and wages : evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...
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