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Should I Train or Should I Go? Human Resources, Human Capital, Turnover and Service Quality
Georgiadis, Andreas; Kornelakis, Andreas - 2024
Extant literature documents a relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and performance, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are still not well understood. We develop a theoretical framework of the HRM-performance relationship fusing an employment systems...
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Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019
potentially adverse effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on training in dual labour markets due to larger firms …
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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018
likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … employees are more likely to receive training when their jobs are characterized by greater decision-making autonomy and task … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply …
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Should the maximum duration of fixed-term contracts increase in recessions? Evidence from a law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote employment, particularly in recessions or when permanent contracts are costly. Therefore, it may be useful to vary some of the legal parameters of FTCs over the business cycle, namely increasing their flexibility during downturns....
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Non-Standard Employment and Wage Differences across Gender: a quantile regression approach
Duman, Anil - 2020
The paper aims to identify the effect of non-standard employment on wages in the Turkish labour market across gender and decompose the gap to understand the role of endowments and returns in generating the earning differences. Our findings show that non-standard employment reduces wages for...
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Overeducation, Overskilling and Job Satisfaction in Europe: The Moderating Role of Employment Contracts
Giuliano, Romina; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2024
This paper is the first to examine whether and how overeducation and overskilling, considered separately and in interaction, influence workers' job satisfaction at European level. It also investigates the moderating role of employment contracts. Our results, based on a unique pan-European...
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A Tale of Two Tracks
Asali, Muhammad - 2018
Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...
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Disentangling the attractiveness of telework to employees: a factorial survey experiment
Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022
This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees evaluates job offers with diverging characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework...
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Challenged by Migration: Europe’s Options
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...
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Social Cohesion and Labor Mobility
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...
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