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Job design and skill developments in the workplace

Russo, Giovanni - 2016

We investigate the relationship between job complexity and the skills development of adult workers in Europe using the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS). The results suggest that challenging workplaces, workplaces in which jobs are designed to include complex tasks, and which place...

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Working at home in Greece: unexplored potential at times of social distancing?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the public health shock as a laggard in digitalisation and remote work arrangements among European...

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Candidate quality

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Takalo, Tuomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Preschoolers' self-regulation, skill differentials, and early educational outcomes

Quis, Johanna Sophie; Bela, Anika; Heineck, Guido - 2019

Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence development? We add to previous research by … investigating the relationship between preschoolers' self-regulation and their mathematical competence and its development early in …

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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017

Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...

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The determinants of firm performance : unions, works councils, and employee involvement/high performance work practices

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2005

Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002853239

What do workers want? : the shortfall in employee participation at the European workplace

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...

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On the power of childhood impressions for skill formation : initial evidence and unsettled questions

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2013

Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto...

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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school …

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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

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