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Work-Related Stress, Quitting Intentions and Absenteeism
Leontaridi, Rannia M.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002
-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour and the rate of absenteeism. We find that those individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262746
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Work-Related Stress, Quitting Intentions and Absenteeism
Leontaridi, Rannia M.; Ward, Melanie E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour and the rate of absenteeism. We find that those individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700921
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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan - 2015
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307343
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The Effects of International Migration on Native Workers' Unionisation in Austria
Antón, José-Ignacio; Böheim, René; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016
workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by the different composition of turnover depending on the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653174
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Working Time Accounts and Turnover
Launov, Andrey - 2017
literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model … of optimal choice of hours by a firm I show that working time account does not necessarily guarantee lower turnover …. Turnover may be reduced or increased depending on whether a firm meets economic downturn with surplus or deficit of hours and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653388
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Learning through Coworker Referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005971
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Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken? An Empirical Analysis Using Nationally Representative Data
Burks, Stephen V.; Monaco, Kristen - 2018
persistent driver shortages and high levels of firm‐level turnover, and predicting significant resulting constraints on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931778
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Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000
This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and … in turnover behavior. A generally important result is that smooth functional forms of the age effect on worker mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262407
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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
Gersbach, Hans; Schutzler, Armin - 2001
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others? trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262533
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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its bankruptcy. We find that the firm learns about its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274098