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Firing Costs and Productivity : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Caggese, Andrea; Guler, Ozan; Mariathasan, Mike; … - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of firing costs on total factor productivity (TFP) and resource allocation …. Exploiting heterogeneous changes in firing costs across employee types in Belgium, we find that increasing firing costs reduce … firm-level TFP. Firms facing a net increase in firing costs reduce hiring and firing, increase hours worked per employee …
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Susceptibility to default training options across the population
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2015
This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most important in their (future or past) jobs. Further on in the survey, we randomly select one of the...
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Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities : Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation
Choudhury, Prithwiraj - 2020
The use of machine learning (ML) for productivity in the knowledge economy requires considerations of important biases that may arise from ML predictions. We define a new source of bias related to incompleteness in real time inputs, which may result from strategic behavior by agents. We theorize...
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Worker reciprocity and the returns to training : evidence from a field experiment
Sauermann, Jan - 2015
Workers' reciprocal behavior is one argument used to explain why firms invest in employee human capital. We explore the relation between firm-sponsored training and reciprocity by providing evidence that workers reciprocate employer training investments by making greater effort. Using a field...
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Worker Reciprocity and the Returns to Training : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Sauermann, Jan - 2015
Workers' reciprocal behavior is one argument used to explain why firms invest in employee human capital. We explore the relation between firm-sponsored training and reciprocity by providing evidence that workers reciprocate employer training investments by making greater effort. Using a field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016319
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Training, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment
Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019
This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a large Latin American retailer. The identification exploits an experimental design in the context of a difference-in-difference strategy. Using longitudinal information obtained...
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Training, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment in retail
Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019
Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training programs. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among store managers and sales associates from a large Latin American retailer....
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Career lotto : labor supply in winner-take-all markets
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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A Firm of One's Own : Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice
Brudevold-Newman, Andrew - 2017
We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second...
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Susceptibility to default training options across the population
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 117 (2015), pp. 369-379
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