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Turnover and heterogeneity in top management networks: A demographic analysis of two Swedish business groups

Collin, Sven-Olof; Umans, Timurs - In: International Journal of Business Science & Applied … 3 (2008) 3, pp. 34-55

A theory based on the demography of top management teams is used to explain membership turnover in two Swedish business …

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Alternative explanations of the volatility trend : Are they really that different?

Rubin, Amir; Smith, Daniel - 2009

We analyse the puzzling behavior of the volatility of individual stock returns around the turn of the Millennium. There has been much academic interest in this topic, but no convincing explanation has arisen. Our goal is to pull together the many competing explanations currently proposed in the...

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A Hicksian model of local labor market turnover and wage determination

Clark, Gordon L. - 1981

Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific … stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of reducing turnover is for the individual firm to raise its wage rates … inflation in the United States. Emphasis is placed on Hicks's model of labour turnover which emphasizes the firm's management of …

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Human resource practices system differentiation: A hotel industry study

Ahmad, Rozila; Solnet, David; Scott, Noel - 2010

The hotel industry utilises the concept of human resource practices system differentiation (HRPSD) by focusing resources on managerial level jobs as a technique of strategic human resource management (SHRM). Despite its use in both practice and the academic literature, research focusing on HRPSD...

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Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and … in turnover behavior. A generally important result is that smooth functional forms of the age effect on worker mobility …

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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training

Gersbach, Hans; Schutzler, Armin - 2001

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others? trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...

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Leontaridi, Rannia M.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002

The paper uses data from the International Social Surveys Program (ISSP) to investigate work-related stress among a group of 15 OECD countries. It examines the determinants of work-related stress and explores the importance of work-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour...

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Market failures and the under-provision of training

Brunello, Giorgio; de Paola, Maria - 2004

encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement

Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001

We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its bankruptcy. We find that the firm learns about its...

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Estimating the returns to firm-sponsored on-the-job and classroom training

Dostie, Benoit - 2010

that these lower returns are due to on-the-job training being more closely related to turnover and more geared toward …

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