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Firms' wage structures, workers' fairness perceptions, job satisfaction and turnover intentions : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeifer, Christian - 2019
and turnover intentions, and (3) the contribution of the fairness considerations on the overall effects of the wage … structure variables on workers' job satisfaction and turnover intentions. The findings suggest that equity and social status … considerations as well as altruistic preferences towards co-workers and inequality aversion are important, whereas the evidence for …
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Effectiveness of social capital in the job search process
Koßmann, Ralf Werner - 2016
income; yet, weak evidence can be found for higher job satisfaction and a reduction in turnover. …
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Learning through coworker referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
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Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2008 - rev.
According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product market conditions...
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Negotiated wage increases and the labor market outcomes of low-wage workers : evidence from the Swedish public sector
Eliasson, Tove; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of a collective agreement stipulating a one shot increase in establishment-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The agreement stipulated that wages should increase in...
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Fairness and frictions : the impact of unequal raises on quit behavior
Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2015
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
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Educational job mismatch, job satisfaction, on-the-job training, and employee quit behavior : a dynamic analytical approach
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A.; Dong, Zhi - 2023
This paper extends the literature on the consequences of over-education, in particular quit outcomes. It is the first study that explicitly tests the impact of job satisfaction and on-the-job training for workers in educational mismatched jobs and on quit behavior using a longitudinal data set....
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Escalation of commitment and CEO departures : theory and evidence
Chulkov, Dmitriy V.; Barron, John M. - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 6, pp. 1416-1435
The escalation of commitment process involves a decision-maker continuing commitment to an investment after receiving negative information. This study develops a principal-agent model to explore how escalation decisions are linked with departures of CEOs from the position. With asymmetric...
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Job mobility, wage dispersion, and technological change : an asymmetric information perspective
Li, Jin - In: European economic review : EER 60 (2013), pp. 105-126
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Information Asymmetry, Job Switching Mobility, and Screening of Abilities : A Tale of Two Sectors
Chen, Xiao - 2016
How does information asymmetry between firms regarding the quality (ability) of workers, determine the distribution of workers' qualities in those firms? We build a game theoretic model of information asymmetry between 2 representative firms competing in the labor market for labor inputs. In the...
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