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Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
its hiring costs and the characteristics and performance of its employees. These measures include the previous experience …
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Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016
We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards their employers. We hire 446 workers for a one-time task. Within worker, we vary (i) piece rates; (ii) whether the work has payoffs only for the worker, or also for the employer;...
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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
List, John A. - 2018
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a “why” in the 1960s to a “must” today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a...
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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
Fuchs, Victor R.; Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2021
This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...
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Family Descent as a Signal of Managerial Quality : Evidence from Mutual Funds
Chuprinin, Oleg - 2016
We study the relation between mutual fund managers' family backgrounds and their professional performance. Using hand … deliver higher alphas than managers from rich families. This result is robust to alternative measures of fund performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984776
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Working Remotely and the Supply-Side Impact of Covid-19
Papanikolaou, Dimitris - 2020
find that sectors in which a higher fraction of the workforce is not able to work remotely experienced significantly … greater declines in employment, significantly more reductions in expected revenue growth, worse stock market performance, and …
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Capital Structure and a Firm's Workforce
Matsa, David A. - 2018
firm's workforce on its capital structure. For instance, high leverage often makes managing labor more difficult by … undermining employees' job security and increasing the need for costly workforce reductions. But firms can also use leverage to … needs and management of their workforce when making financing decisions …
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Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?
Fox, Jeremy T. - 2011
Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one explanation: the quality of inputs differs across firms. We add labor market history variables such as experience and firm and industry tenure, as well as general human capital...
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?
Kruse, Douglas L. - 2015
workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 … the policies have a causal impact on employee well-being and firm performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037335