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Horizontal transfer and promotion: New evidence and an interpretation from the perspective of task-specific human capital

Sasaki, Masaru; Takii, Katsuya; Wan, Junmin - 2012

This paper provides new evidence about horizontal transfer and promotion using the largest available personnel panel data in Japan and interprets them from the perspective of task-specific human capital. We find that firms synchronize their employees' promotion and horizontal transfers. Then, we...

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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2004

Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that a...

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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2011

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...

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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008

Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...

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Bonus payments and reference point violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and subsequent performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if...

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Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution: Evidence from performance measures

Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010

Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...

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