Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,510
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083745
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153492
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766958
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316678
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317128
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317467
Cover Image
Works Councils as Gatekeepers : Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023
implemented on the firm level is actually applied by middle management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255616
Cover Image
Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Du Caju, Philip - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127724
Cover Image
Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011
We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127939
Cover Image
Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis
Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128231