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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan - 2012
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization
Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nick; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - 2021
We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over 1995-1999. For the within-shop link - holding constant the shop's permanent characteristics - we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover...
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2021
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...
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Performance Pay and Prior Learning : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Manthei, Kathrin - 2018
We run two field experiments within a large retail chain showing that the effectiveness of performance pay crucially hinges on prior job experience. Introducing sales-based performance pay for district- and later for store-managers, we find negligible average treatment effects. Based on surveys...
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
Prantl, Susanne - 2009
Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West …
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset : Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with … Germany from 2001 to 2008 and contains around 920,000 individuals. The complementary survey covers a panel of more than 17 …
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