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Job satisfaction and employee turnover : a firm-level perspective
Frederiksen, Anders - 2015
In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...
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Age discrimination, apprenticeship training and hiring : evidence from a scenario experiment
Dalle, Axana; Wybo, Toon; Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2024
In many countries, age discrimination appears to be driven by negative perceptions that recruiters stereotypically hold about older candidates' technological skills, trainability, and flexibility. Based on human capital, signalling, and screening theories, we hypothesise that training programmes...
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Staff engagement, coworkers' complementarity and employee retention : evidence from English NHS hospitals
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022
Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive …. We empirically investigate the role played by two such aspects, staff engagement and the retention of complementary … coworkers, in affecting employee retention within the public hospital sector. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset based …
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...
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I can't get no satisfaction : the power of perceived differences in employee retention and turnover
Gevrek, Deniz; Spencer, Marilyn K.; Hudgins, David; … - 2017
' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel … retention. We find that employees who have less favorable perceptions of salary adjustments, compared to what they believe their … statistically significant impact on retention. Our results indicate that monetary rewards in the form of salary raises do impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613161
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HPWS in the public sector : are there mutual gains?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018
Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...
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Are schools different? : wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere
Bryson, Alex; Stokes, Lucy; Wilkinson, David - 2018
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain in 2004 and 2011 we find school staff are more satisfied and more contented with their jobs than "like" employees in other workplaces. The differentials are largely accounted for by the occupations school employees...
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Climbing the ladders of job satisfaction and employees' organizational commitment : a semi-nonparametric approach
Vieira, José António Cabral - 2019
Researchers and human resource practitioners are nearly unanimous that satisfied and committed employees can play a major positive role in business performance. There is, however, a need for further evidence on what determines satisfaction at the workplace and how it can be promoted. In other...
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An experimental investigation of age discrimination in the Spanish labour market
Riach, Peter Andrew (contributor); Rich, Judy (contributor) - 2007
"In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the older waiters, corresponded to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003476498
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An experimental investigation of age discrimination in the French labour market
Riach, Peter Andrew (contributor); Rich, Judith (contributor) - 2006
In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003523259