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Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity: Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015
We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401652
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Job Design and Skill Developments in the Workplace
Russo, Giovanni - 2016
We investigate the relationship between job complexity and the skills development of adult workers in Europe using the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS). The results suggest that challenging workplaces, workplaces in which jobs are designed to include complex tasks, and which place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559635
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Complex Job Design and Layers of Hierarchy
Russo, Giovanni; Van Houten, Gijs - 2021
The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597601
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Heterogeneity of skill needs and job complexity : evidence from the OECD PIAAC survey
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015
We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347287
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Job design and skill developments in the workplace
Russo, Giovanni - 2016
We investigate the relationship between job complexity and the skills development of adult workers in Europe using the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS). The results suggest that challenging workplaces, workplaces in which jobs are designed to include complex tasks, and which place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532558
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Complex job design and layers of hierarchy
Russo, Giovanni; Houten, Gijs van - 2021
The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550121
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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion in a Complexity Ladder of Jobs
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Vartiainen, Juhana - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2002
This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across tasks of different complexity using panel data from a representative sample of Finnish metalworkers during 1990- 2000. Finnish metal industry data provide a continuous measure of the complexity of the worker’s tasks that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190697
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Technological Choices, Productivity and Labour Market Participation
Amine, Samir; Santos, Pedro Lages Dos - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011
Nous étudions, dans cet article, le rôle des allocations chômage dans la détermination de la nature des emplois offerts. Nous montrons qu'un système d'indemnisation du chômage généreux, en provoquant une accentuation de la sélectivité des agents, affecte les caractéristiques des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794715
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Unleashing Employees’ Power to Innovate: Cross-level Effects of Employment Relationships and Job Complexity.
AUDENAERT, M.; VANDERSTRAETEN, A.; BUYENS, D. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2013
This study develops a multilevel conceptual model linking employment relationships and psychological empowerment with … affect psychological empowerment, which in turn is related to individual innovation. The second job-level context variable … psychological empowerment and individual innovation. These findingsunderscore recent claims that multilevel linkages and the job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083123
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Social Exchange and Common Agency in Organizations
Dur, Robert; Roelfsema, Hein - 2006
We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...
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