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Working When No One Is Watching: Motivation, Test Scores, and Economic Success

Segal, Carmit - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 8, pp. 1438-1457

This paper provides evidence that scores on simple, low-stakes tests are associated with future economic success because the scores also reflect test takers' personality traits associated with their level of intrinsic motivation. To establish this, I use the coding speed test that was...

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Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

Levine, David I.; Toffel, Michael W. - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 6, pp. 978-996

Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 quality management systems standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO...

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An Analysis of the EEOCC "Four-Fifths" Rule

Greenberg, Irwin - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 8, pp. 762-769

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinating Council is responsible for the elimination of inconsistencies among the operation of the agencies and departments that enforce Federal equal employment opportunity laws. It has recently promulgated quantitative guidelines to determine if...

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Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment

Marx, Matt; Strumsky, Deborah; Fleming, Lee - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 875-889

Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...

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Server Transfer Delays in a Dual Resource Constrained Parallel Queueing System

Gunther, Richard E. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 12, pp. 1245-1257

Simulation is used to evaluate a number of server assignment prodecures within a system of parallel queues. There are less servers than parallel single-channel service facilities and server transfer between facilities is allowed. Server transfer involves a deterministic time delay. Job...

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Multiple Shift Workforce Lower Bounds

Koop, Gerald J. - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 10, pp. 1221-1230

Previous lower bounds on workforce size have been derived from the consideration that the number of working shifts which can be provided by the workers over a given period of time must be at least as large as the number of working shifts required by the staffing demands over that period. None of...

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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay

Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995

We estimate the returns to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) for university faculty, and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on faculty at a Big Ten university (ours), we estimate...

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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Houseman, Susan N.; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Erickcek, George A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate …

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Aggregate Effects in Local Labor Markets of Supply and Demand Shocks

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti …-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or … different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population …

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The Effects of Local Labor Demand on Individual Labor Market Outcomes for Diffrerent Demographic Groups and the Poor

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Economists have traditionally had a keen interest in the effects of overall labor demand on the economic well-being of … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … "natural laboratory" for determining the true effects of overall labor demand. These recent studies generally find that …

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