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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - 2004
We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261946
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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005
games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267652
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Earnings tenure profiles: tests of agency and human capital theories using individual performance data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2007
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268237
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Analysis of pay inequality and its impacts on growth and performance in the Korean manufacturing industry
Kim, Yunhee; Lee, Jeong-dong; Heshmati, Almas - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268960
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Employee training and wage dispersion: white and blue collar workers in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010
We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269502
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Earnings progression, human capital and incentives: Theory and evidence
Frederiksen, Anders - 2010
The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings...
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Incentives in the public sector: Evidence from a government agency
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - 2012
records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287691
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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566466
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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559801
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Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives
Gibbs, Michael - 2017
At the 2016 Academy of Management Conference, a group of distinguished compensation researchers held a panel discussion on the future of compensation research. Their remarks were compiled into an article published in this issue. Soon after the panel, Charles Fay commissioned a similar discussion...
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