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Firms' wage structures, workers' fairness perceptions, job satisfaction and turnover intentions : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeifer, Christian - 2019
and turnover intentions, and (3) the contribution of the fairness considerations on the overall effects of the wage … structure variables on workers' job satisfaction and turnover intentions. The findings suggest that equity and social status … considerations as well as altruistic preferences towards co-workers and inequality aversion are important, whereas the evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140308
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Effectiveness of social capital in the job search process
Koßmann, Ralf Werner - 2016
income; yet, weak evidence can be found for higher job satisfaction and a reduction in turnover. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451008
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Learning through coworker referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997660
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Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2008 - rev.
According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product market conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128001
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Negotiated wage increases and the labor market outcomes of low-wage workers : evidence from the Swedish public sector
Eliasson, Tove; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of a collective agreement stipulating a one shot increase in establishment-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The agreement stipulated that wages should increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354153
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Fairness and frictions : the impact of unequal raises on quit behavior
Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2015
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289322
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Educational job mismatch, job satisfaction, on-the-job training, and employee quit behavior : a dynamic analytical approach
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A.; Dong, Zhi - 2023
This paper extends the literature on the consequences of over-education, in particular quit outcomes. It is the first study that explicitly tests the impact of job satisfaction and on-the-job training for workers in educational mismatched jobs and on quit behavior using a longitudinal data set....
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Work-related ability as source of information advantages of training employers
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Wydra-Sommaggio, Gaby; Zwick, Thomas - 2015 - This version August 2015
This paper addresses the puzzle how employers that invest in general human capital can gain an information advantage with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an established model from the employer-learning literature...
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The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock : the distributional consequences of COVID-19
Benzeval, Michaela; Burton, Jonathan; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2020
Using new data from the Understanding Society: COVID 19 survey collected in April 2020, we show how the aggregate shock caused by the pandemic affects individuals across the distribution. The survey collects data from existing members of the Under-standing Society panel survey who have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226071
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Borrowing constraints, search, and life-cycle inequality
Griffy, Benjamin - 2017 - This Version: Nov. 24th, 2017
This paper quantifies the impact of borrowing constraints on consumption and earnings inequality in a life-cycle model … inference to estimate the model parameters, and show that wealth inequality causes both placement into lower-paying jobs as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963363