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Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is …
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This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
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the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …
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ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced skills is also positive in a team of … specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program … results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …
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to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers …
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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …
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In the last decades, the OECD labor markets faced important labor supply changes with the arrival of women and the cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare their true employment experience, this paper argues that these supply trends imply more inexperienced workers. It then...
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We estimate a structural model of education choices in which individuals choose between a professional (or technical) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98). The average per-period utility of attending general high school (about...
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: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
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