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results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …
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I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...
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Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between … mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures - absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity … health status. Job conditions are relatively more important in understanding diminished productivity at work if workers are …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …
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Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business … evidence that BVs contribute to fostering labour productivity in a significant way. While this is consistent with what found by … returns, being more crucial in those sectors characterized by less mobility and by lower productivity performances. …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …
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For trans people (i.e. people whose gender is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth) evidence suggests that transitioning (i.e. the steps a trans person may take to live in the gender with which they identify) positively affects positivity towards life, extraversion, ability to...
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Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …
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We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …
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To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity … a key role in attenuating the economic consequences of agricultural productivity shocks. Exploiting firm-level variation …
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