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Job satisfaction and employee turnover : a firm-level perspective

Frederiksen, Anders - 2015

In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...

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Detecting discrimination in Audit and correspondence studies

Neumark, David - 2010

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...

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On the production of victory : empirical determinants of battlefield success in modern war

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …

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What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?

Stokes, Lucy; Bryson, Alex; Wilkinson, David - 2019

the leadership roles of deputy and assistant heads and classroom-based teachers with additional leadership … typically employ more staff in leadership roles than community schools. Increases in the number of staff in leadership roles … distributing leadership within schools may only be realised when leaders have sufficient autonomy. …

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Labor demand shocks at birth and cognitive achievement during childhood

Regmi, Krishna; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2019

As epidemiological studies have shown that conditions during gestation and early childhood affect adult health outcomes, we examine the effect of local labor market conditions in the year of birth on cognitive development in childhood. To address the endogeneity of labor market conditions, we...

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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...

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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment

Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017

We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...

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Unemployment and right-wing extremist crime

Falk, Armin (contributor); Zweimüller, Josef (contributor) - 2005

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we empirically test this hypothesis. We use a previously not used data set which includes all...

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High performance workplace practices and job satisfaction : evidence from Europe

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor) - 2004

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Substitution between managers and subordinates : evidence from British football

Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009

indicated, in our data, by teams with greater payrolls. -- Productivity ; leadership …

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