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Supervisors and performance management systems

Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017

Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...

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The times they are a-changin' : organizational change and immigrant employment opportunities in Scandinavia

Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period … 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process … Sweden and Denmark experienced similar declines in employment prospects between 1985 and 1995 despite quite different …

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Downward nominal wage rigidity in services : direct evidence from a firm survey

Radowski, Daniel (contributor); Bonin, Holger (contributor) - 2009

The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...

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From the dual apprenticeship system to a dual labor market? : the German high-skill equilibrium and the service economy

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009

Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...

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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution : evidence from performance measures

Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010

Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...

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Whatever works : dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010

The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals...

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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers

Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...

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Non-standard employment across occupations in Germany : the role of replaceability and labour market flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2013

The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...

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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries

Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016

Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...

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