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variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …
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in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from …
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in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only indirectly and gradually, through a slower accumulation of human capital … satisfactorily by other employees in the workplace …
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I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage dispersion within the firm. Given a set of heterogeneous workers, the manager faces the challenge...
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Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages … and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher … condition on the ethnic complexion of employees at the workplace. Instead, the wage penalty is attached to the percentage of non …
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neighborhoods, but ignores the fact that a lot of interaction also takes place in other spheres of life, such as the workplace. This … paper examines the role of residential segregation in workplace segregation among recently arrived immigrants. By using … unique longitudinal register data from Sweden, we show that the role of residential segregation in workplace segregation …
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This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker's opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...
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This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...
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the four groups of employees who make up the British workforce; males and females who work full and part-time. The … workplace specific characteristics. The results are compared with previous findings for 2004 (Mumford and Smith, 2009) and with …
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increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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