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The productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms

Murmann, Martin - 2017

Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...

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Can Early-Stage Startups Hire Talented Scientists and Engineers? Ability, Preferences, and Employee Job Choice

Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry - 2022

Early-stage technology startups rely critically on talented scientists and engineers to commercialize new technologies. And yet, they compete with large technology firms to hire the best workers. Theories of ability sorting predict that high ability workers will choose jobs in established firms...

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Startup acquisitions : acquihires and talent hoarding

Benkert, Jean-Michel; Letina, Igor; Liu, Shuo - 2023

We present a model of startup acquisitions, which may give rise to inefficient "talent hoarding." We develop a model with two competing firms that can acquire and integrate (or "acquihire") a startup operating in an orthogonal market. Such an acquihire improves the competitiveness of the...

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Startup acquisitions as a hiring strategy : turnover differences between acquired and regular hires

Kim, J. Daniel - In: Strategy Science 9 (2024) 2, pp. 118-134

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Train drain? : access to skilled foreign workers and firms' provision of training

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2021

Does better access to skilled workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the gradual opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit...

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The impact of Arab Spring on hiring and separation rates in the Tunisian labour market

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...

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E-recruitment : towards an ubiquitous recruitment process and candidate relationship management

Holm, Anna B. - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 26 (2012) 3, pp. 241-259

Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of e-recruitment on the recruitment process as a whole. The … present study fills part of this gap by investigating the effect of e-recruitment on the design of the recruitment process … that e-recruitment transforms the traditional recruitment process into a time- and space-independent, collaborative hiring …

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Labour market dynamics in Germany : hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle

Bachmann, Ronald (contributor) - 2005

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...

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The decline in job-to-job flows : an aging workface and declining entrepreneurship explain the decline in job-to-job flows only partially

Hyatt, Henry R. - 2015

As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, jobto- job flows tend to be beneficial for productivity and for workers. Thus, when this rate slows, it is important to understand why. In the US, for example, the job-to-job flow rate is now at...

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Do informal referrals lead to better matches? : evidence from a firm's employee referral system

Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - 2014

Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U.S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical...

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