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Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet...
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Employers want motivated and productive employees. Are there ways to increase employee motivation without relying …
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account for employee self-selection into firms that apply these practices finds generally positive effects on employee health …
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towards the organisation and employee behaviour. This paper gives an overview of both the employer and employee survey and … Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering establishments in Germany and … employee surveys that can be matched to each other. Second, it can also be linked to a number of additional administrative data …
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We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
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How can a manager influence workers' activity while knowing little about it? This paper examines a situation where production requires several tasks, and the manager wants to direct production to achieve a preferred allocation of effort across tasks. However, the effort that is required for each...
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Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....
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each manager tries to sway the employee's effort his way. While this may result in too much social exchange, the attention …
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workers with information about the quality of their own job as well as of other jobs in their organisation and industry. …. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job search is instigated by dissatisfaction with an organisation … another position within their current organisation. Dissatisfaction with job domains which may have an industry …
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We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more … -- namely, a lot of attention -- which will induce the employee to stay at the firm and work hard. Our predictions are well in …
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