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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs

Chi, Wei - 2010

This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...

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The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan

Kato, Takao - 2022

Using both quantitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from our own field research, this paper provides evidence on changes in participatory employment practices in Japan during the economic slowdown in the 1990s. Overall, consistent with the complementarity of such practices...

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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination

Gorton, Gary B. - 2010

German system of codetermination,' a governance system under which employees are allocated some control rights over corporate … assets by law. Codetermination laws require that employees be represented on the (supervisory) board of directors. If … codetermination sufficiently empowers employees, and if stockholders' rights cannot be contractually protected, then employees may …

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Human Resource Management Systems and the Performance of U.S. Manufacturing Businesses

Ichniowski, Casey - 2021

This paper estimates the effects of systems of human resource management policies on the performance of U.S. manufacturing businesses. OLS results for labor productivity and Tobin's q models both reveal that nonunion businesses that employ a human resource management system with flexible job...

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What Causes Labor Turnover to Vary?

Lazear, Edward P. - 2018

Most turnover reflects churn, where hires replace departures. Churn varies substantially by employer, industry and worker characteristics. For example, leisure and hospitality turnover is more than double that of manufacturing. In the LEHD (QWI) data, permanent employer differences account for...

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Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector : The Case of Bank Branches

Bartel, Ann P. - 2021

This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...

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Motivating Employee-Owners in Esop Firms : Human Resource Policies and Company Performance

Kruse, Douglas L.; Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph; … - 2021

What enables some employee ownership firms to overcome the free rider problem and motivate employees to improve performance? This study analyzes the role of human resource policies in the performance of employee ownership companies, using employee survey data from 14 companies and a national...

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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms

Ichniowski, Casey - 2010

Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...

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The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms

Jara-Figueroa, Cristian - 2018

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one...

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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?

Harrison, Ann E. - 2011

The new trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector...

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