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Incentives and managerial experience in multi-task teams: Evidence from within a firm

Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew - 2006

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced Scorecard, was implemented in all branches in one division, but not in...

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 2, pp. 161-170

variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the … the qualification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on the qualification of the … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009

Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - 2010

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...

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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Microdata

Ariu, Andrea; Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Jensen, J. … - 2019

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, workforce composition, and firm …

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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age …

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Trade with China and Skill Upgrading: Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Data

Mion, Giordano; Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zhu, Linke - 2009

We use Belgianfirm-level data over the period 1996-2007 to analyze the impact of im- ports from China and other low-wage countries onfirm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level andfirm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish...

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Trade with China and skill upgrading: Evidence from Belgian firm level data

Mion, Giordano; Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zhu, Linke - 2010

We use Belgian firm-level data over the period 1996-2007 to analyze the impact of imports from China and other low-wage countries on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish...

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On Hierarchies and Communication

van den Brink, René - 2006

Many economic organizations have some relational structure, meaning that economic agents do not only differ with respect to certain individual characteristics such as wealth and preferences, but also belong to some relational structure in which they usually take different positions. Two examples...

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Positional Wages, Market Wages and Firm Size

van den Brink, Rene; Ruys, Pieter H.M. - 2005

We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the firm is determined by profit maximization under the...

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Hierarchy, Coercion, and Exploitation: An Experimental Analysis

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Oechssler, Jörg; Shah, Anwar - 2012

The power to coerce workers is important for the efficient operation of hierarchically structured organizations. However, this power can also be used by managers to exploit their subordinates for their own benefit. We examine the relationship between the power to coerce and exploitation in a...

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