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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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New education models for the future of work force

Pastore, Francesco - 2018

This paper addresses the directions to follow when designing new educational systems and school-lowork transition regimes to adhere to the needs of Industry 4. 0. Although a high level of general education will be important for its training content to develop adaptability, it is not the only...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Arrival of young talents : the send-down movement and rural education in China

Chen, Yi; Fan, Ziying; Gu, Xiaomin; Zhou, Li-An - 2018 - This draft: October 2018

This paper studies human-capital spillovers and its persistence by exploiting a unique event in modern Chinahe send-down movement. From 1962 to 1979, the Chinese central government mandated the temporary resettlement of roughly 18 million urban youths to rural areas across the country. The...

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Are managers more Machiavellian than other employees?

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023

Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions. Against this background, we examine whether there is an...

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Defining and measuring workforce development in the United States in a post-bipartisan era

Holland, Brian - 2018

The bipartisan acceptance of a federal role in workforce development policy is no longer in play as a result of … ideological differences in the definition of workforce development which arise from a lack of coherent and misunderstood outcomes …. My attempt here is to posit a new definition for workforce development that explains what these activities actually are …

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Employee training and firm performance : quasi-experimental evidence from the European Social Fund

Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

As work changes, firm-provided training may become more relevant for good economic and social outcomes. However, so far there is little or no causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, contrasting successful firms...

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

Portes, Jonathan - 2021

I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...

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Technological change and occupation mobility : a task-based approach to horizontal mismatch

Aepli, Manuel - 2019

Technological change and its impacts on labour markets are a much-discussed topic in economics. Economists generally assume that new technology penetrating the labour market shifts firms' task demand. Given individuals' acquired and supplied skills, these task demand shifts potentially foster...

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Resilience strategies for mismatched workers : microeconomic evidence from Egypt

Syed Zwick, Helène - 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the on-the-job resilience strategies of mismatched workers. We empirically focus on Egyptian workers.Design/Methodology/Approach - This study relies on a primary micro-data collection based on design and implementation of a...

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