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The incidence and determinants of employee involvement: Evidence from the Finnish manufacturing sector
Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Kato, Takao; Mäkinen, Mikko - 2008
In this paper, we present preliminary empirical findings on the incidence of employee involvement practices in the Finnish manufacturing sector. The novel survey on EI practices is based on a representative random sample from the population of the Finnish manufacturing firms who had 50 or more...
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Specification and estimation of network formation and network interaction models with the exponential probability distribution
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng; Lee, Lung-fei; Boucher, Vincent - In: Quantitative Economics 11 (2020) 4, pp. 1349-1390
We model network formation and interactions under a unified framework by considering that individuals anticipate the effect of network structure on the utility of network interactions when choosing links. There are two advantages of this modeling approach: first, we can evaluate whether network...
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A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
Tumen, Semih - 2015
understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage dispersion within the firm. Given a set of … implications of this allocation on intra-firm wage outcomes. The main idea is that the wage paid to a single worker is determined … critical to understanding the within-firm productivity and wage differentials. I show that intra-firm wage dispersion is more …
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The productivity effects of profit sharing, employee ownership, stock option and team incentive plans: Evidence from korean panel data
Kato, Takao; Lee, Ju Ho; Ryu, Jang-soo - 2010
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Stock Option Plans (SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we...
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
differentials in the lower-wage origin relative to the higher-wage destination. Favorable selectivity for labor market success can …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the …
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Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2005
with country differences in the international transferability of skills to the US and the favorable selectivity of economic …
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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Globalised labour markets? International rent sharing across 47 countries
Martins, Pedro Silva; Yang, Yong - 2010
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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The institutional and economic limits to bargaining decentralization in Italy
D'Amuri, Francesco; Giorgiantonio, Cristina - 2015
breaks encouraging a closer link between wage and productivity at the firm level has been undermined by poor monitoring and …
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