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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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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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Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?

Bryson, Alex - 2018

Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We adopt an alternative approach comparing schools to observationally equivalent workplaces in the rest of the British economy using measures of workplace performance that are...

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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation : Before and after the Recession

Bryson, Alex - 2017

A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked employer-employee surveys for 2004 and 2011. Using...

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Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces : Where are They and Who Controls Them?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. The risks workers face and the control they have over those risks are weakly negatively correlated....

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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

White, Michael R. - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...

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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany

Biewen, Martin - 2008

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

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Deja Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980-1992 and 2000-2003

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …

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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Voelter, Robert - 2021

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments …

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