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Globalization and Firm Performance
Catão, Luis; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023
globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254888
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages, Carmen - 2021
-linearities in their impact on employment growth. The results suggest strong composition effects: A weak business environment shifts … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment … reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of medium size and large firms. With significant differences between firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316735
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Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs : A Labor Market Sorting View
Faia, Ester - 2020
exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833248
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance inpractice....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486962
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Effects of E-Commerce on Local Labor Markets
Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofía - 2023
collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing out-of-state sales taxes lowered employment and reduced wages in …-and-mortar employment is somewhat offset by an increase in employment in warehouse clubs and supercenters. Our results are consistent with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345972
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Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory : Evidence from Managers
Huffman, David; Raymond, Collin; Shvets, Julia - 2023
A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using reduced form and structural methods we...
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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 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754887
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Optimizing Incentive Plan Design : A Case Study
Levenson, Alec R. - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120140
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110857
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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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