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Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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Unions, training, and firm performance

Addison, John T. (contributor); … - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee … Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence …

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High performance workplaces and family friendly practices : promises made and promises kept

Heywood, John S. (contributor); … - 2005

High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...

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Do small businesses create more jobs? : new evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series

Neumark, David (contributor); Wall, Brandon (contributor); … - 2008

We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...

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Workplace disability diversity and job-related well-being in Britain : a WERS2004 based analysis

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2009

This paper attempts to establish empirically whether there is a link between workplace disability and employee job … techniques to account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that workplace disability diversity is associated with lower … employee well-being among people with no reported disability. Tests conducted also indicate that workplace equality policies do …

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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

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Worker characteristics, job characteristics, and opportunities for phased retirement

Hutchens, Robert Maynard (contributor) - 2007

"This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker's opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...

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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...

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Does the minimum wage cause inefficient rationing?

Luttmer, Erzo F. P. (contributor) - 2007

This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the labor market, the minimum wage could cause workers with low reservation wages to be rationed out while equally skilled workers with higher reservation wages are employed. This...

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The returns to pencil use revisited

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2007

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