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Hiring and retaining skilled employees in SMEs : problems in human resource practices and links with organizational success
Bilan, Yuriy; Mishchuk, Halyna; Roshchyk, Iryna; Joshi, … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 2, pp. 780-791
confirmed in our study. At the level of small and medium-sized enterprises, hiring and retaining skilled workers is one of the … the cluster analysis allows us to conclude that the problems of hiring and retaining skilled workers have some connection … satisfaction. However, there are no close links between the factors of hiring effectiveness and retention of skilled workers with …
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Exploration for Human Capital : Evidence from the MBA Labor Market
Kuhnen, Camelia M. - 2015
We empirically investigate the effect of uncertainty on corporate hiring. Using novel data from the labor market for … MBA graduates, we show that uncertainty regarding how well job candidates fit with a firm's industry hinders hiring, and …. The detrimental effect of uncertainty on hiring is more pronounced when firms face greater firing and replacement costs …
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Wage premia for newly hired employees : theory and evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...
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Evidence on Training and Career Paths : Human Capital, Information and Incentives
Melero, Eduardo - 2021
In this paper, I analyse the relationship between job-related training and career progress of workers. Most theories of career paths and task assignment rely on human capital accumulation. Therefore, it seems natural to start assessing the empirical validity of such theories by analysing the...
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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training
Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for labour market research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14
This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment, maternity leave for female workers, compulsory service for male...
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How do online degrees affect labor market prospects? : evidence from a correspondence audit study
Lennon, Conor - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 74 (2021) 4, pp. 920-947
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Hiring by professional affiliation : the benefits and challenges of leveraging prospective hires’ prior employment ties to improve matching and access to resources
Kehoe, Rebecca R.; Brymer, Rhett Andrew; Keller, J.R.; … - In: Personnel psychology : a journal of applied research 77 (2024) 2, pp. 497-526
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An Intra-Firm Perspective on Wage Profiles and Employmentof Older Workers with Special Reference to Human Capitaland Deferred Compensation
Pfeifer, Christian - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009
Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do nothire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants areexplored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective,such adjustments might lead to adverse incentive...
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Employment relations and wages : what can we learn from subjective assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find another job as good as the present one, and how easy it would be for an employer to replace an employee. First, using high-quality data, I study the correlates of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761377
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An intra-firm perspective on wage profiles and employment of older workers with special reference to human capital and deferred compensation
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do not hire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants are explored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective, such adjustments might lead to adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003802942