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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution

Collischon, Matthias - 2017

This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a … model of wage determination under uncertainty with respect to individual productivity based on three components (minimum … effects of non-cognitive skills for high-wage employees compared to their low-wage counterparts. I test these hypotheses with …

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The Returns to Personality Traits Across the Wage Distribution

Collischon, Matthias - 2017

This paper investigates variation in the wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I expect (i …) increasing explanatory power and (ii) increasing magnitudes of the effects of non-cognitive skills on wages across the wage …

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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data : An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas J.; Palm, Franz C. - 2013

of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top …-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … with the wage dispersion of an individual’s occupation …

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Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation of the Adoption of Work Teams

Nandi, Tushar Kanti - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2006

This paper is concerned about the adoption of work teams and the factors that facilitate team adoption. It focuses on four factors - trade union, technological change, training of the workforce and shared mode of compensation. Both parametric and semiparametric estimation methods are used to...

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The Effects of Worker Participation, Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing on Economics Performance : A Partial Review

Jones, Derek C.; Pliskin, Jeffrey L. - 2001

For alternative sharing arrangements, we review theory on the economic effects on employment, productivity, investment, income and wealth distribution, and life cycle and survival. We find that predictions are often ambiguous and that sometimes the nature and size of the specific effect is...

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Zur Verbreitung und Ausgestaltung geringfuegiger Beschaeftigung im Einzelhandel. Eine explorative Studie aus der Perspektive von Management und Beschaeftigten

Benkhoff, Birgit; Hermet, Vicky - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 15 (2008) 1, pp. 5-5

Geringfuegig Beschaeftigte im Einzelhandel erleben hoechst prekaere Arbeitsbedingungen und weit verbreitete Verstoesse gegen das Arbeitsrecht. Das ergab eine explorative Studie auf der Basis von halbstrukturierten Interviews mit Managern und Mitarbeitern in 22 Filialen von 18 verschiedenen...

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Knowledge and Female Entrepreneurship : A Competence and Social Dimension (Conocimiento E Iniciativas Empresariales Femeninas: Competencia Y Dimensión Social)

García Palma, Maria - 2017

English Abstract: This paper, the result of a broader research on female entrepreneurship, aims to analyze the competence dimension of knowledge on women entrepreneurs. The method used is qualitative, comparatively analyzing the speech and enterprising entrepreneurs develop knowledge about and...

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Toward a Strategic Role for Employees in Corporate Governance

Muthusamy, Senthil Kumar; Bobinski, Pawel A.; Jawahar, David - 2022

As the economies are becoming knowledge intensive and industries are encountering hypercompetitive technology environments, and the markets undergoing large scale globalization with firms experiencing wild fluctuations in financial performance, firm governance structure and the functioning of...

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The Great Resignation, Unemployment, and Underemployment in the US : A Study of Labor Market Segmentation

Lambert, Thomas E. - 2022

industries, minority group composition, wage stagnation, and type of managerial supervision. Some of these same factors help to …

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The American Experience with Employee Noncompete Clauses : Constraints on Employees Flourish and Do Real Damage in the Land of Economic Liberty

Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Jones, Phillip J. - 2021

the employer to pay the employee less than a competitive wage, but also raises the recruiting costs of the employer … apply his or her labor to the highest valued use and receive a competitive wage.Which of these two economic views of …

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