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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,...
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Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers Via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility
Marino, Marianna - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056655
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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, as well as complementary country level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030837
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Teams Make You Smarter : Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
Maciejovsky, Boris - 2010
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision … tasks, implying that team experiences enhance individual problem-solving skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139333
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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams : The Role of Social Ties
De Paola, Maria - 2016
basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981511
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(Lack of) Pension Knowledge
Barrett, Alan - 2013
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076158
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Measuring Knowledge
Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022
Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083722
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021
, typically at 10 to 16% per 100 days in a team; (iv) while initially teams lead to more downtime, these costs diminish over time …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who … are solicited by management; and (vi) similar relationships exist for more educated team members. These findings square …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316923
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The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships : Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912764
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Employee Identification and Wages : On the Economics of "Affective Commitment"
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2020
We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824439