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's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially … dissonance between the assessments of the two sides as to the quality of industrial relations at the workplace. All trust … two more favored trust measures that any one type of formal workplace representation - either works councils or union …
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Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training …
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We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions...
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The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee … Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence …
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High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...
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We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...
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This paper attempts to establish empirically whether there is a link between workplace disability and employee job … techniques to account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that workplace disability diversity is associated with lower … employee well-being among people with no reported disability. Tests conducted also indicate that workplace equality policies do …
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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
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"This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker's opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...
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