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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017
That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options seems to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious. But owners may find it hard to distinguish poor performance from bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and...
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Sexual identity, earnings, and labour market dynamics : new evidence from longitudinal data in Australia
Sabia, Joseph J.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
Using newly collected data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this study … presents new estimates of the earnings effects of sexual orientation in Australia and offers the first empirical investigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501871
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Job mobility along the technological ladder : a case study of Australia
Meng, Xin (contributor); Junankar, Pramod N. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Climbing the job ladder : new evidence of gender inequity
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408534
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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market performance. Our analysis has two special features. First,...
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Overskilling, job insecurity and career mobility
McGuinness, Séamus (contributor); Wooden, Mark (contributor) - 2007
This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608455
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Longitudinal analysis of immigrant occupational mobility : a test of the immigrant assimilation hypothesis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the "first" occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …
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Working hours and productivity
Collewet, Marion; Sauermann, Jan - 2017
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641767
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758792
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Social ties and subjective performance evaluations : an empirical investigation
Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959944