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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research,...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864856
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Gender Promotion Gaps : Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination
Azmat, Ghazala - 2020
Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of lawyers in the U.S., we document a sizeable gap between men and women in their early aspirations to become law firm partners, despite similar early investments and educational characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part...
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Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?
Bryson, Alex - 2018
' sector. We find intensive use of HRM practices is correlated with substantial improvement in workplace performance, both … that improve performance elsewhere in the economy. Furthermore, in contrast to the linear returns to HRM intensity in most … workplaces, improvements in schools' performance are an increasing function of HRM intensity …
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The Gender Promotion Gap : Evidence from Central Banking
Hospido, Laura - 2019
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage gap emerges between men and women within a few...
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The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980315
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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation : Before and after the Recession
Bryson, Alex - 2017
A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM … measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … intrinsically motivating work situations in the absence of HRM practices, find this advantage disturbed when formal HRM practices …
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I Can't Get No Satisfaction : The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover
Gevrek, Deniz - 2017
This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962268
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Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces : Where are They and Who Controls Them?
Bryson, Alex - 2016
This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. The risks workers face and the control they have over those risks are weakly negatively correlated....
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