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Decomposition of co-worker wage gains
Boza, István; Ilyés, Virág - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/8, pp. 1-31
sorting of good quality workers into firms, and may contribute to the creation of better employer-employee matches. By … mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer-employee administrative data and proxying actual … empirical evidence in favor of employee referral and information transmission as the main drivers of co-worker gains. …
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Heterogeneity of skill needs and job complexity : evidence from the OECD PIAAC survey
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015
intensity of abstract reasoning, employee latitude, interactivity or manual work. The analysis confirms the significant relation …
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Perceived overqualification and performance : the role of the peer group
Alfes, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 27 (2013) 4, pp. 314-330
teams in a service organisation in the United Kingdom reveal that overqualified employees perform better as peer …
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Wage floors, imperfect performance measures, and optimal job design : conference paper
Kragl, Jenny; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
We analyze the effects of wage floors on optimal job design in a moral-hazard model with asymmetric tasks and imperfect aggregate performance measurement. Due to cost advantages of specialization, assigning the tasks to different agents is efficient. A sufficiently high wage floor, however,...
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Technological and Organizational Changes as Determinants of the Skill Bias: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms
Piva, Mariacristina; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2004
Recent empirical literature has introduced the "kill Biased Organizational Change" hypothesis, according to which organizational change can be considered as one of the main causes of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skiled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in...
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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age
Klus, Milan - 2020
How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...
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Where's the Teacher? How Teacher Workplace Segregation Impedes Teacher Allocation in India
Fagernäs, Sonja - 2017
Social or ethnic segregation can impede the equitable allocation of public resources in developing countries. We study an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we construct indicators for the equality of teacher...
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Cash Holdings and Labor Heterogeneity : The Role of Skilled Labor
Ghaly, Mohamed - 2017
Firms differ in their dependence on skilled labor and face labor adjustment costs that increase with their workers' skill level. We show that firms with a higher share of skilled workers, and thus less flexibility to adjust their labor demand in response to cash flow shocks, hold more...
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Modern Management and the Demand for Technical Skill
Lee, Yong Suk - 2018
This paper examines the relationship between modern management practices and the demand for different occupational skills utilizing a unique context in South Korea after the Asian financial crisis. Management practices in South Korea had traditionally emphasized the organizational harmony over...
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The Impact of Managerial Competencies on the Managerial Performance in the Educational System
Stan, Cristina - 2015
The concept of competence in science education is in the midst of individual and collective performance. The complexity of the activity of running school has found a certain specific of its management that is materialized in two dimensions of the school activity: the variety of categories of...
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