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Trust and Control at the Workplace : Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe

Grund, Christian - 2009

performance appraisal systems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals' inclination to trust …

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Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings

Gerst, Benedikt - 2020

Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of parental leave are still prevalent. In this contribution, we explore the role of gender for the relation between the incidence/duration of parental leave and earnings after...

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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Grund, Christian - 2019

Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance … appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual …. Employees working in establishments with a works council are more likely to face a formal performance appraisal procedure. Works …

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Beschäftigungsstruktur Und Zufriedenheit Von Zeitarbeitnehmern in Deutschland (Employment Structure and Satisfaction of Temporary Agency Workers in Germany)

Grund, Christian - 2014

German Abstract: Auf Basis von Daten des Deutschen Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels der Jahre 2001 bis 2012 untersuchen wir Determinanten einer Zeitarbeitsbeschäftigung sowie möglicher Erklärungsansätze für Unterschiede in der Arbeits- und Lebenszufriedenheit zwischen Arbeitnehmern in Zeitarbeit...

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Further Training and Affective Commitment

Grund, Christian - 2018

We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish between a support effect and a participation effect: On the one hand we analyze how a firm's general support for further training is associated with the affective commitment of their...

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Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis : Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector

Grund, Christian - 2013

Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards. Carrying out longitudinal analyses, we find that, on...

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The Role of Employees' Age for the Relation between Job Autonomy and Sickness Absence

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2021

We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an inverse relation between employees' job autonomy and days...

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The Wage Policy of Firms - Comparative Evidence for the U.S. And Germany from Personnel Data

Grund, Christian - 2021

The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...

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The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction - Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2021

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...

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