This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first investigates the implications of industrial clustering for labor … on labor market outcomes. The results show that clustering makes it easier for workers to job hop among establishments … importance of geography in understanding labor market dynamics within industries.While the first chapter reveals striking …

Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … opportunity to investigate the movement of a highly skilled labor force (Kahn, 2000). Therefore, the current study will … investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …

involving redesign of the physical environment, introduction of a new information system, work process improvement, and extended …

information leads to the principal-agent problem (Ross, 1973) whereby managers cannot fully monitor the work effort levels of … work effort by adjusting the working conditions associated with the work environment (see for example Vroom, 1964; Igalens … & Roussel, 1999; Locke and Latham, 2004). The studies of work motivation generally acknowledge that work effort is the product …

The deteriorating labor market position of young men has arguably played an important role in later and less frequent … formation and the labor market causes of marriage declines since the 1970s. It is motivated by three aspects of labor market … changes that have characterized the post-industrial U.S. economy: the historic shift in labor market returns to schooling …

Work process knowledge (WPK) is a concept for systems-level knowledge of the workplace and has been shown to be most … comparative case studies of the work processes and knowledge within these six VAs, based on a social constructivist framework …. Although VA managers do not use the term ‘work process knowledge’, they nonetheless recognise the importance of having staff …