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Substitution between Managers and Subordinates : Evidence from British Football
Bridgewater, Sue - 2009
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces : Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, Stanley - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within …
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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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Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces : Where are They and Who Controls Them?
Bryson, Alex - 2016
dealing with health and safety is linked to lower risks than direct consultation between management and employees over health …
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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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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit - 2013
the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the … management-employee relations via maximum likelihood ordered probit estimates. Four measures of job satisfaction that have not …; satisfaction with sense of achievement and satisfaction with respect from supervisors.Main findings indicate that management …
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Unemployment Duration and Disability : Evidence from Portugal
Sciulli, Dario - 2009
In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on (re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and...
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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2021
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...
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Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2021
This paper proposes a matching model that distinguishes between job creation by existing firms and job creation by firm entrants. The paper argues that vacancy posting and job destruction on the extensive margin, i.e. from firms that enter and exit the labour market, represents a viable...
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