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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...

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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, MANAGERS’ INDEPENDENCE, EXPORTING AND PERFORMANCE OF FIRMS IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Filatotchev, Igor; Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for Comparative Economics, School of Slavonic … - 2006

-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers’ independence is positively associated with firms’ financial performance … constrain managerial autonomy at the cost of the firm’s internationalization and performance, (ii) board participation of … foreign stakeholders, on the other hand, enhances the firm’s export orientation and performance by encouraging executives …

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Capital risque industriel et innovation technologique

Lantz, Jean-Sebastien; Sahut, Jean-Michel; Teulon, … - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

Le capital risque industriel (CVC) joue un rôle moteur dans le développement d’innovations technologiques. C’est à la fois un apport en fonds propres ainsi qu’en compétences techniques et stratégiques aux start-up. Mais c’est également une stratégie entrepreneuriale réalisée à...

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On the robustness of persistence in mutual fund performance

Matallín-Sáez, Juan Carlos; Soler-Domínguez, Amparo; … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2014

This paper analyzes persistence in US equity mutual fund performance over the period 2001-2011 for both net and gross … approach, which assesses the performance of investing by following recommendations based on past performance. Results show the …-sectional significance of recursive portfolios. In general, our results do not support evidence of persistence in mutual fund performance …

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Challenging (Strategic) Human Resource management Theory

Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …

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Employee Perception on Commitment Oriented Work Systems

van der Wiele, Ton; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Human resource management (HRM) does matter! Prior empirical research, summarized and classified in the work of Delery and Doty (1996), Guest (1997) and Boselie et al. (2000), suggests significant impact of HRM on the competitive advantage of organizations. The mainstream research on this topic...

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Human Resource Management and Performance

Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and performance of the firm has been a hot debated topic in … performance is in a Dutch setting mitigated by institutions and stakeholders inside and outside the organization. …

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WHAT RELATION EXISTS BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) AND LONGEVITY OF FIRMS?

Sahuta, Jean-Michel; Boulerne, Sandrine; Mili, Medhi; … - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

The relation between company longevity and its performance is undeniable; however the relationship between … sustainability and performance remains the subject of multiple studies which seem to confirm a positive link. But what type of …

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Persistence of Performance Using the Four-Factor Pricing Model: Evidence from Dow Jones Islamic Index

Khamlichi, Abdelbari El; Arouri, Mohamed; Teulon, Frédéric - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

goal of this article is to investigate whether Dow Jones Islamic index 100 titans (DJI100) delivers persistent performance … (Market premium, size, Book-to-Market, momentum). Our findings show positive performance for momentum strategy and support the …

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