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Sessions, John G. (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate the relationship between the slope of the wage-tenure profile and the level of monitoring across two cross sections of matched employer-employee British data. Our theoretical model predicts that increased monitoring leads to a decline in the slope of the wage-tenure profile. Our...

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Worker surveillance capital, labour share and productivity

Askenazy, Philippe - 2020

This paper proposes a basic model with two types of capital: productive capital directly involved in the production process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies workers' job strain, while wage recognition encourages their engagement. Firms face a double...

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Is an army of robots marching on Chinese jobs?

Giuntella, Osea; Wang, Tianyi - 2019

market. Using aggregate data from Chinese prefectural cities (2000-2016) and individual longitudinal data from China, we find …

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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?

Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership

Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance …

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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives : standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets

Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...

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The healthy fright of losing a good one for a bad one

Cristini, Annalisa; Origo, Federica; Pinoli, Sara - 2012

In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one hand, and workers moving from insecure to secure jobs, on the other hand. Using a large...

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Coming to work while sick : an economic theory of presenteeism with an application to German data

Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2015

Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...

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Examining the relationship between employee resistance to changes in job conditions and wider organisational change : evidence from Ireland

Cronin, Hugh; McGuinness, Séamus - 2014

This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at...

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