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In the service of the society: The labour management practices of an Australian life Insurer to 1940

Keneley, M. J. - In: Business History 48 (2006) 4, pp. 529-550

This article considers the labour management practices in use in the Australian life insurance industry during the inter-war period. Using the Australian Mutual Provident as a case study, it is argued that the specific human resource management practices evolved to deal with separate sets of...

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Internal versus External Labour Flexibility : The Role of Knowledge Codification.

Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2007

This article uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. We argue that increasing knowledge codification made possible by the diffusion of information and communication technologies has made competences less dependent...

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Paths to higher office: evidence from the Swedish Civil Service

Nordström Skans, Oskar; J. Brösamle, Klaus - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

The paper analyzes the relationship between career path characteristics of civil servants and their career success. Following a description of the institutional setting and some qualitative evidence on typical paths to the top, we use data that follows the careers of all Swedish civil servants...

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Flexibility in Japanese internal labour markets: The introduction of performance-related pay

Keizer, Arjan - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 28 (2011) 3, pp. 573-594

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Paths to higher office: evidence from the Swedish Civil Service

Brösamle, Klaus J; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

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"Employment precariousness" in a European cross-national perspective. A sociological review of thirty years of research.

Barbier, Jean-Claude - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011

What has been analysed in France mainly under the term "précarité de l'emploi" over the past 30 years was mostly dealt with differently in other countries (atypical, non-standard employment). Research on these issues dates back to the 1970s in sociology and institutional economics. More...

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Determinants of Promotions in an Internal Labour Market

Pfeifer, Christian - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 62 (2010) 4, pp. 342-358

contractual working time, higher education, higher entry age, and longer remaining tenure are correlated with a higher promotion … probability, but female employees are less likely to get promoted. Surprisingly, the promotion probability is positively … correlated only with less absenteeism and more overtime in the last three months before the promotion occurs. Explanations, why …

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Career spillovers in internal labour markets

Bianchi, Nicola; Bovini, Giulia; Li, Jin; Paradisi, Matteo - In: The review of economic studies : RES 90 (2023) 4, pp. 1800-1831

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Strategic Recruiting And The Chain Of Command

Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

If managers and their subordinates had the same basic qualifications, organizations could benefit from replacing unproductive superiors with more productive subordinates. This threat of being replaced, however, could give rise to strategic recruiting: Unproductive superiors might deliberately...

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What became of labour market segmentation in France : its changing design

Michon, François - HAL - 2007

A survey of thirty years of French literature suggests an assessment of the segmentationist perspective today: a compulsory theoretical reference as soon as one debates the varied nature of the employment relationship; and an old-fashioned reference that is now obscured by more general analyses...

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