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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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Multitasking
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2022
This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas multitasking or task juggling in the workplace has been analyzed more widely, economic literature on multitasking in a household is relatively scarce. The chapter first provides relevant measures of such...
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria - 2012
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities …
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The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity : Evidence from a Field Experiment
de Grip, Andries - 2011
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on individual worker performance before and after training....
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Profit Sharing and Workplace Productivity : Does Teamwork Play a Role?
Long, Richard J. - 2014
The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021
, typically at 10 to 16% per 100 days in a team; (iv) while initially teams lead to more downtime, these costs diminish over time …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who … are solicited by management; and (vi) similar relationships exist for more educated team members. These findings square …
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2013
This paper uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the returns to language skills of child and adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language acquisition profiles between immigrants from English-...
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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
Burda, Michael C. - 2013
We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...
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The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms : An Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms
Ghosh, Anirban - 2014
Many U.S. businessmen are vocally in favor of an increase in the number of H-1B visas. Is there systematic evidence that this would positively affect firms' productivity, sales, employment or profits? To address these questions we assemble a unique dataset that matches all labor condition...
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