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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012
We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...
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Den Weizen von der Spreu trennen – altersbezogene Personalpolitik und Innovationen auf der Betriebsebene
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die altersbezogene Personalpolitik deutscher Betriebe und deren Einfluss auf die … analysiert, ob die Innovationsleistung von Betrieben mit deren Personalpolitik zusammenhängt. Die Analyse von verknüpften …, dass eine jugendzentrierte Personalpolitik die Innovationsfähigkeit der Betriebe verbessert. …
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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?
Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010
In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...
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The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity
Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Prennushi, Giovanna - 2021
Increasingly, firms are considering the adoption of new work practices, such as problem-solving teams, enhanced communication with workers, employment security, flexibility in job assignments, training workers for multiple jobs, and greater reliance on incentive pay. This paper provides...
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Demand for Older Workers : What Do Economists Think? What are Firms Doing?
Allen, Steven G. - 2019
The employment rate for workers 55 and over has been increasing across the world for the last decade. This creates opportunities for employers to diversify their workforce and retain valuable knowledge and skills, while at the same time posing the challenge of rising labor costs and blocked...
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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …
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Human Resource Policies and Union-Nonunion Productivity Differences
Allen, Steven G. - 2022
Many researchers in both economics departments and business schools recently have become interested in examining how much of an effect human resource decisions and policies have on firm performance. This paper surveys the literature on unionism and productivity and discusses its implications for...
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Venture Capital as Human Resource Management
Carvalho, Antonio - 2014
Venture capitalists add value to portfolio firms by obtaining and transferring information about senior managers across firms over time. Information transfer occurs on a significant scale and takes place both among a single venture capitalist%u2019s portfolio firms and between different venture...
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The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees : A Sectoral Comparison
White, Michael R. - 2019
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job attitudes pre-recession. However, high intensity HPWS has...
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High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
White, Michael R. - 2019
Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...
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