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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...
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The paper uses novel data for Germany linking worker and establishment surveys with administrative social security data … and turnover intentions, and (3) the contribution of the fairness considerations on the overall effects of the wage … structure variables on workers' job satisfaction and turnover intentions. The findings suggest that equity and social status …
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literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model … of optimal choice of hours by a firm I show that working time account does not necessarily guarantee lower turnover …. Turnover may be reduced or increased depending on whether a firm meets economic downturn with surplus or deficit of hours and …
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European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …
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turnover (or churning). Thus, we enquire whether STW avoids firings as intended by policymakers and is associated with …
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We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
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This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and … in turnover behavior. A generally important result is that smooth functional forms of the age effect on worker mobility …
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This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job separations are significantly affected by both employer-provided and general training. Moreover,...
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hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U …
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Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset provides...
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