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effects of labor downsizing on firms' technical efficiency, financial performance, and employee wages. We find that downsizing … more dramatically. Moreover, downsizing has serious short-term costs in terms of total factor productivity. For mild … downsizing, private firms suffer more deterioration in productivity. The distribution of surplus after downsizing is more …
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mobility in the CEO market, even though firms demand general CEO skills. The empowerment mechanism explains why CEOs are …
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Using the employee opinion survey responses from several thousand employees working in 193 branches of a major U.S. bank, we consider whether there is a distinctive workplace component to employee attitudes despite the common set of corporate human resource management practices that cover all...
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wages, especially for cities initially in banking deserts. However, these gains are not shared equally. Instead, they … increase with workers' productivity, implying a substantial increase in wage inequality. The changes to inequality are …
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The increasing use of temporary workers (dispatched labour) has become contentious in China since the implementation of China’s Labour Contract Law in 2008. Supporters of the Temporary Staffing Agency Employment (TSAE) industry in China, consider it as a cost-cutting, human resource-management...
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labor downsizing on firms' technical efficiency, financial performance, and employee wages. Since downsizers and non … reversing the trends of declining productivity and profitability of state enterprises in the short run. Our findings imply that …
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, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While there is clear evidence that training is positively …
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Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
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longer period of time tend to pay higher wages. Using a unique set of linked employer-employee data we present the first … empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …
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