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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size, and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500240
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Switching costs, firm size, and market structure
Loertscher, Simon; Schneider, Yves - 2005
In many markets, homogenous goods and services are sold both by large global frms and small local frms. Surprisingly, the large frms charge, often substantially, higher prices. Examples include hotels, airlines, and coffee shops. This paper provides a parsimonious model that can account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315515
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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings: Evidence from Sweden 1960-1990 and a Comparison with the United States
Gustavsson, Magnus - 2004
I decompose the cross-sectional variance of male annual earnings in Sweden between 1960 and 1990 into permanent and … particular, it is likely that centralized solidarity bargaining in Sweden imposed constraints on earnings instability during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321526
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007
focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure … of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These workers not only experienced job loss, but were also the … target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321623
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Unemployment and subsequent earnings for Swedish college graduates: A study of scarring effects
Gartell, Marie - 2009
Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for the inclusion of a rich set of observable control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273933
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The effect of employer incentives in social insurance on individual wages
Wikström, Johan - 2009
employers incentives to transfer the costs to their workers, affecting individual wages and inducing cream skimming. Side … off employer incentives on individual wages is estimated using a reform in January 1992, which introduced an employer co … information on hourly wages, gives no support of any important individual wage effects from the co-insurance reform. This is not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273955
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Stability of college rankings: A study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data
Gartell, Marie - 2009
The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be consistent with regard to which colleges that on average are found in the top and bottom half of the earnings distribution. Moreover, there are no systematic differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273978
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Does adult education at upper secondary level influence annual wage earnings?
Stenberg, Anders - 2007
Adult education at upper secondary level (AE) is an integral part of the Swedish educational system. Of the cohort born in 1970, about one third has at some point been registered in AE. This evaluation of AE is the first to use register data on the course credits actually attained. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317933
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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010
as women, tend to systematically demand lower wages. Also, we find that workers with high wage demands are contacted by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321440
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000
This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321802