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In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about …
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We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical … framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible … mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then analyse matched workplace and employee data in order to ascertain …
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Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have been increasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services - such as food preparation and cleaning - that can be broadly thought as substitutes of home production activities. Meanwhile the wage...
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The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and...
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suggest that relative deprivation as a comparison of one's own perceptions of a salary raise with others affects employee … employee retention; however, perception of fairness of these salary raises is also as important as the actual raises. Given the … first study that explores the employee satisfaction with salary raises relative to perceptions of other employees …
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This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...
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Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of … importance include human resource practices. With respect to the effects of employee commitment and loyalty upon the workplace …
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broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …
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We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their status: public (university or non-teaching),...
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We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....
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