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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees : Theory and Evidence

Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011

We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...

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Occupational Status and Health Transitions

Ribar, David - 2011

We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...

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Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2010

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...

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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market

Tabasso, Domenico - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...

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Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction : New Evidence from Athens, Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

By utilizing the 2008 Athens Area Study (AAS) data set, this study investigates four aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, respect received from one's supervisor, and total job satisfaction – between healthy and heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are...

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Managerial Valuation of Applicant Credentials and Personal Traits in Hiring Decisions

Jones, James R. - 2011

We study how managers value applicant credentials and personal traits in hiring decisions. Using the ordered probit … of the overall state of the economy, on firm and immediate workplace characteristics, and on managers' personal … characteristics. Manager valuations of credentials vary with a large number of factors; this is not so for applicant personal traits …

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive activity. We consider the effect of an increase in the employer's knowledge (information) regarding...

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Higher Wages, Overstaffing or Both? The Employer's Assessment of Problems Regarding Wage Costs and Staff Level in Co-Determined Establishments

Gralla, Rafael - 2012

This study examines the differences in the likelihood of overpayment and overemployment in establishments with and without works councils. In contrast to other studies, we use assessments by the management concerning the existence of such problems. Furthermore, we also analyze how different...

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Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees

Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels - 2012

We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...

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