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Hiring and retaining skilled employees in SMEs : problems in human resource practices and links with organizational success

Bilan, Yuriy; Mishchuk, Halyna; Roshchyk, Iryna; Joshi, … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 2, pp. 780-791

The ability to attract and retain the talents is an important factor in the competitiveness of countries, as it is confirmed in our study. At the level of small and medium-sized enterprises, hiring and retaining skilled workers is one of the most difficult tasks of HR management, especially in...

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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - 2000

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade:...

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Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?

Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013

This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis 2009-10 with the help of an enterprise survey. The results of variance analysis show that the use of fixed-term or agency work contracts is not uniform across sectors, size and...

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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform

Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2007

Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...

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Employment dynamics and the structure of labor adjustment costs

Varejão, José; Portugal, Pedro - 2006

In this paper we document the patterns of employment adjustment at the micro-level. We find clear evidence of lumpy adjustment consistent with the presence of non-convexities in the adjustment technology - inaction is pervasive, action spells are short-lived, extreme adjustment episodes occur...

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Excess turnover and employment growth: firm and match heterogeneity

Centeno, Mário; Machado, Carla; Novo, Álvaro A. - 2009

turnover rates. In small firms, hires and separations move symmetrically during expansion and contraction periods, on the … contrary, large firms adjust their employment levels by reducing entry and not by increasing separations. Most hires and … separations are on fixed-term contracts and shrinking firms replace a larger share of their separations under fixed-term contracts …

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So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks: estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia

Campos, Nauro F.; Dabušinskas, Aurelijus - 2008

Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...

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Työpaikka- ja työntekijävirrat ja tehtävärakenteiden dynamiikka Suomen yrityssektorilla

Maliranta, Mika - 2009

Job flows are typically defined on the basis of the employment changes at the plant level. When calculated in this way, the job creation rate was 22.4% and destruction rate 23.8% in the Finnish business sector in the four-year period 2000-2004. However, when the different occupations (using...

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Excess worker turnover and fixed-term contracts: Causal evidence in a two-tier system

Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2011

Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the employment protection gap between open-ended and fixed-term contracts. We explore a reform that...

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