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How should teams be formed and managed? : how teams are chosen and how they are compensated can determine how successfully they solve problems and benefit the firm
Ōwan, Hideo - 2014
The keys to effective teamwork in firms are (1) carefully designed team-formation policies that take into account what level of diversity of skills, knowledge, and demographics is desirable and (2) balanced team-based incentives. Employers need to choose policies that maximize the gains from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420496
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Job Tasks and Gender Wage Gaps within Occupations
Bizopoulou, Aspasia - 2019
I provide evidence that task use at work by men and women in the same occupations is significantly different. The observed difference can account for the within-occupational gender-wage gap that is prevalent in many developed countries. Using data for thirteen European countries, I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860829
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Task specialization and cognitive skills: evidence from PIAAC and IALS
Martinez-Matute, Marta; Villanueva, Ernesto - 2020
We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries participating in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC) and from 13 countries that also participate in the International Adult Literacy Study...
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A felőfokú végzettségű munkavállalók munkaerő-piaci helyzete és foglalkozásuk-iskolai végzettségük illeszkedśe
Galasi, Péter (contributor) - 2008
The paper examines the labour-market position of persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary. First, using … simple labour-market indicators and international-comparison data, we find that persons with the higher-education diploma in … Hungary are in a relatively good position in terms of both wage premium and unemployment. Second, analysing the occupation/education …
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Overeducation, skill mismatches, and labor market outcomes for college graduates : overskilling or overskilling plus overeducation are more likely than overeducation alone to harm...
Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the skills they learned in college are not being fully used. Most of the literature on educational or skill mismatch is based on cross-sectional data, providing information at just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420242
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Employment polarization and immigrant employment opportunities
Wielandt, Hanna - 2015
Building on the task-based approach of technological change, this paper discusses the interaction between occupational polarization (e.g. a gradual increase of native employment in the lowest and highest-paying jobs) and employment opportunities of immigrant workers. Using high quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529344
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The "task approach" to labor markets : an overview
Autor, David H. - 2013
An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization - that is, rising employment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699318
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The magnitude and causes of job polarization : a local labor market approach ; conference paper
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2013 - Incomplete draft version
This paper examines job polarization at the level of local labor markets in Germany over a 30-year period. The major explanation of job polarization is skill biased technological change (SBTC): new technologies are complementary to high paying jobs but substitute workers in routine manual jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340528
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Job polarization on local labor markets
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
The labor markets of most industrialized countries are polarized. This means that employment has grown in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. However, there exists no measure that allows a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401761
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The impact of the great recession on employment polarization in Spain
Anghel, Brindusa; Rica, Sara de la; Lacuesta, Aitor - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 2/3, pp. 143-171
This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997 - 2012 and the way particular sociodemographic groups adapt to those changes. There seems to be clear evidence of employment polarization between 1997 and 2012 that accelerates over the recession....
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