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Retention And Productivity Through Effective Management
Jul 2008
The fundamental process of good management is the performance management process. Employees perform best and are most satisfied when they understand expectations and know how they are doing. When...
Provided by Professional Development Services
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Probe Into Modes Of International Human Resource Management In Chinese Small And Medium Enterprises
Nov 2010
As a result of the opening and reform of China, Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) have become an important force in China's national economy. When Chinese SME's seek international...
Provided by World Business Institute
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Maximizing HR Contributions To Company Success
Jan 2011
Through this process HR will become a more strategic contributor, and will chart a course that is viable in troubled or still waters. While crisis and change make planning imperative, HR is served...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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Doing Business In International Markets A Human Resources Perspective
Jan 2011
When a company sets sail for new markets, strategic human resource planning can be instrumental in safeguarding ventures to dry land and into working condition. Too often though, when companies...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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International Human Resource Management
Jan 2011
International human resources are a complex paradigm - like a puzzle where all the pieces are intertwined and all placement of the piece in hand decisions impact the total picture. However, in...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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Simplifying Your "People" Systems
Jun 2010
The author had found that managers and CEOs can almost repeat core values endlessly without it seeming ridiculous - so long as the core values they're using truly are relevant and meaningful to...
Provided by Gazelles
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Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Two Simple Single-Profile Versions
Mar 2008
In this paper the authors provide two simple new versions of Arrow's impossibility theorem, in a model with only one preference profile. Both versions are transparent, requiring minimal...
Provided by Brown University
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Case Studies
Trevecca Nazarene University And ePartners Empower Employees
Jul 2007
Trevecca Nazarene University is a private four-year, accredited liberal arts school. Trevecca needed better tracking and reporting tools for their employees and needed to radically reduce the...
Provided by ePartners
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Case Studies
Data Solutions Inc. Added InetSoft's Reporting Solution To Human Performance Management Solution
Aug 2008
Data Solutions Inc. (DSI), a premier provider of technology and services for Human Resource organizations, provides a wide range of solutions that include employee surveys, multi-rater assessment...
Provided by InetSoft Technology
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Classification, Detection And Consequences Of Data Error: Evidence From The Human Development Index
Dec 2010
The authors measure and examine data error in health, education and income statistics used to construct the Human Development Index. They identify three sources of data error which are due to data...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Integrating Internal Communications, Human Resource Management And Marketing Concepts Into The New Internal Marketing Philosophy
Oct 2008
Successful companies attach great importance to human resource management and internal communications; because they are aware of the value of those activities and of strategic advantage they can...
Provided by University of Zagreb
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Do Frictions Matter In The Labor Market? Accessions, Separations And Minimum Wage Effects
Oct 2010
The authors provide the first test of the effects of U.S. minimum wages on labor market flows (accession, separation and turnover rates). Using county pairs straddling borders with minimum wage...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Employee Replacement Costs
Mar 2010
The authors investigate properties of employee replacement costs, using a panel survey of California businesses in 2003 and 2008. They establish that replacement costs are substantial relative to...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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The Changing Structure Of Employment In Contemporary China
Oct 2009
China is the twenty-first century's "Workshop of the world," absorbing natural resources from Africa, Latin America and the rest of Asia and exporting manufactured goods, much as England did...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Choice Of Law And Employee Restrictive Covenants
Sep 2009
Employees are increasingly mobile across state lines. This is partly the result of technological change that facilitates individual movement and communication, but also a result of corresponding...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Spatial Heterogeneity And Minimum Wages: Employment Estimates For Teens Using Cross-State Commuting Zones
Jun 2009
Conventional approaches to estimating the effect of minimum wages on teen employment insufficiently account for heterogeneous employment patterns and selectivity of states with higher minimum...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages In The Low Wage Service Occupations? Evidence From Janitors And Guards
Aug 2008
Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the eighties and nineties, and was associated with lower wages, less benefits, and lower rates of unionization. The authors focus on two...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Employees' Choice Of Method Of Pay
Feb 2009
Who chooses what type of pay? The costs and benefits of "Flexible" and "Cafeteria-style" benefit plans have been discussed for some time. Additionally, many papers have considered the potential...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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The Human Resource Economics Of Vernon Briggs
Jun 2009
This paper examines the conception of Human Resource Economics (HRE) that shaped the career of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. It probes the history of economic thought to describe the intellectual roots of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
Mar 2008
Many countries have legislation which makes it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Changing An Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
Nov 2008
High information recruitment practices (e.g., personal communication from a recruiter) from both single and multiple sources were more effective for changing unfavorable employment reputation...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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Employee Attributions Of The "Why" Of HR Practices: Their Effects On Employee Attitudes And Behaviors, And Customer Satisfaction
Dec 2007
The construct of Human Resource (HR) Attributions is introduced. The authors argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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Human Resource Practices And Organizational Commitment: A Deeper Examination
Dec 2007
This paper examines newer conceptualizations of HRM practices in the HR-Performance Relationship as well as newer conceptualizations of commitment. Juxtaposing these categories of HR practices and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
The Labor Market Experience And Impact Of Undocumented Workers
Jun 2008
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Crime And The Labor Market: A Search Model With Optimal Contracts
Oct 2007
This paper extends the Pissarides (2000) model of the labor market to include crime and punishment 'a la Becker (1968). All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Identification Of Models Of The Labor Market
Sep 2010
This chapter discusses identification of common selection models of the labor market. The authors start with the classic Roy model and show how it can be identified with exclusion restrictions....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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White Papers
Technological Progress, Organizational Change And The Size Of The Human Resources Department
Jun 2008
Innovative workplace practices based on multi-tasking and ICT that have been diffusing in most OECD countries since the 1990s have strong consequences on working conditions. Available data show...
Provided by University of Glasgow
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White Papers
Beyond The Joneses: Inter-Country Income Comparisons And Happiness
Jan 2011
The paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income...
Provided by ECINEQ
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The Driving Force Of Labor Force Participation In Developed Countries
Jun 2008
The evolution of labor force participation rate is modeled using a lagged linear function of real economic growth, as expressed by GDP per capita. For the U.S., the model predicts at a two-year...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Obesity And Labor Market Outcomes: New Danish Evidence
Dec 2007
This paper analyzes the relationship between three body weight measures, employment status and wages, thereby broadening the perspective of the literature on obesity and labor market outcomes. The...
Provided by Henvendelser
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White Papers
Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, And The Choice Of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence From New Japanese Data
Nov 2007
This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling...
Provided by Henvendelser
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White Papers
Informality And Productivity In The Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001
Jul 2007
Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working at the margins of labor market legislation or in microenterprises that lack...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
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White Papers
The Labor Market Returns To Cognitive And Noncognitive Ability: Evidence From The Swedish Enlistment
Mar 2009
The authors use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive ability for labor market out-comes. The...
Provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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White Papers
Globalization And Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Dec 2010
This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched...
Provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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White Papers
Inflation Dynamics And Labor Market Dynamics Revisited
Jun 2007
Firms adjust labor both at the intensive and at the extensive margin (see, e.g., Hansen and Sargent 1988). Moreover, employment adjustment is not frictionless (see, e.g., Mortensen and Pissarides...
Provided by Duke University
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Are Active Labour Market Programmes Least Effective Where They Are Most Needed? The Case Of The British New Deal For Young People
Sep 2010
One view of Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) is that they are 'Most needed' in slack labor markets, where more unemployed workers require help finding jobs. But ALMPs might be less effective...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Immigration Background And The Intergenerational Correlation In Education
Jun 2010
This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. The authors find that young Australians from Non-English-Speaking...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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How Does A Worker?s Labour Market History Affect Job Duration?
May 2010
This paper explores the relation between a worker's job duration and prior labor market experience. Hazard models are estimated using data on employment spells for the population aged 25 to 64...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Does Part-Time Employment Help Or Hinder Lone Mothers? Movements Into Full-Time Employment?
Dec 2009
A significant demographic trend in recent decades in Australia has been the growth in lone parent families as a proportion of all families, associated with which has been growth in welfare...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Overskilling Dynamics And Education Pathways
Jul 2009
This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of over skilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Relationship Between Absence From Work And Job Satisfaction: Greece And UK Comparisons
May 2011
The paper starts with a literature survey concerning absenteeism and job satisfaction. Most of the literature on absenteeism suggests that absence from work is a complex issue influenced by...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Congruence Between Portfolio Planning And Adaptations - The Gordian Knot Of Sharing A Pie And Making It Grow At The Same Time
Aug 2008
The existing research on adaptation has focused on adaptations as vital in relationships. Adaptations are seen as increasing and making relationships work more smoothly. At the same time...
Provided by Copenhagen Business School
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Skills And Wage Inequality In Greece: Evidence From Matched Employer-Employee Data, 1995-2002
Mar 2011
This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables them to account...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Price And Wage Setting In Portugal: Learning By Asking
Apr 2011
This paper presents the main findings of a survey conducted on a sample of Portuguese firms. The main aim was to identify some relevant characteristics about the dynamics of prices and wages in...
Provided by European Central Bank
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How Wages Respond To Shocks: Asymmetry In The Speed Of Adjustment
May 2011
The time series of various economic variables often exhibit asymmetry: decreases in the values tend to be sharp and fast, whereas increases usually occur slowly and gradually. The authors detect...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Wage-directed Job Match With Multiple Applications And Multiple Vacancies: The Optimal Job Application Strategy And Wage Dispersion
Jun 2007
This paper develops a model of directed-search where workers' preference for a higher wage is explicitly modelled into their application strategy. In a general setting where jobs offer non-uniform...
Provided by University of London
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An Essay On The Generational Effect Of Employment Protection
Nov 2009
This paper provides an explanation for the observed positive relationship between youth unemployment and the cost of firing workers. When the cost of firing workers is high, firms only fire when...
Provided by University of London
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Employment And Asset Prices
Nov 2009
A medium-term relationship exists between share prices, normalised by labour productivity, and the rate of unemployment in the OECD countries. A similar relationship appears to exist between...
Provided by University of London
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Education And Human Resource Development In Post-Independent Eritrea ? An Explanatory Note
Sep 2008
Education is a lifelong process. Twentieth century has witnessed the miracles of Human Resource Development (HRD) activities reflected through increase in GNP and overall productive activities....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Reservation Wages And The Earnings Capacity Of Lone And Couple Mothers: Are Wage Expectations Too High?
Nov 2007
There is a great deal of policy and community concern about the growth in the number of working-age Australians in receipt of income support payments. Of particular concern is the increasing...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Choice Of Crops And Employment Uncertainty In The Off-Farm Labor Market
Sep 2008
Cultivator households in some developing areas use off-farm labor supply as an insurance against crop income shocks, whilst employment is uncertain in this off-farm labor market. This paper...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Wage Differentials In The Presence Of Unobserved Worker, Firm, And Match Heterogeneity
Nov 2007
The authors consider the problem of estimating and decomposing wage differentials in the presence of unobserved worker, firm, and match heterogeneity. Controlling for these unobservables corrects...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Wage Inequality In A Dual Economy And International Mobility Of Factors: Do Factor Intensities Always Matter?
Nov 2007
The paper develops a three-sector specific factor model with Harris-Todaro type unemployment to examine the consequences of international factor mobility on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Webcasts
Sell More Through Engaged Employees
Jan 2011
How do your employees react when a customer enters your business? The level to which your employees engage with customers is the second most powerful factor in winning over the competition's...
Provided by iEntry
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Employment Protection And Regional Worker Flows In Italy
Nov 2007
In this paper the authors point out that the theoretical predictions concerning Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) are not fully confirmed by empirical evidence in Italy, a strict EPL country...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Macro-Determinants Of UK Regional Unemployment And The Role Of Employment Flexibility
Nov 2007
This paper explores the macroeconomic determinants of UK regional unemployment and their relation to the influences on unemployment exerted by the levels and types of employment flexibility in the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Wages And Employment In The Liberalised Regime: A Study Of Indian Manufacturing Sector
Nov 2007
Expansion of earning opportunities and increment in earning levels are dual objectives of policymakers in developing countries. The structural adjustment program in India tried to ensure both...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Labour Market Entry Conditions, Wages And Job Mobility
May 2010
Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of...
Provided by Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Child Benefit Reform And Labor Market Participation
Mar 2009
This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children. The authors analyze the impact...
Provided by Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations - A Meta-Analysis
Feb 2009
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. The sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between...
Provided by Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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The Flexibility-Security Nexus In Transitional Labour Markets: An Empirical Analysis
Jun 2010
This paper is intended to serve as a basis for discussions and, as well, a stimulating critique on monitoring Transitional Labour Markets (TLM) in Europe. TLM arouse interest from many researchers...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Flexibility, But For Whom? : A New Approach To Examining Labour Market Flexibility Across Europe Using Company Level Data
Nov 2007
Labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in the reform of labour markets in welfare states. The way in which various countries adapt to this need differs according to their...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Labour Market Implications Of Large-Scale Restructuring In The Banking Sector In Turkey
Nov 2007
Over the past 30 years, Turkey has had 22 Governments and during this period, macroeconomic and political instability has become a major feature of the country. Populist macroeconomic policies,...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Unemployment Insurance In An Economy With A Hidden Labor Market
Nov 2007
This paper considers the problem of optimal unemployment insurance in a moral hazard framework. Unlike existing literature, unemployed workers can secretly participate in a hidden labor market; as...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Optimal State-Contingent Unemployment Insurance
Nov 2007
Since the probability of finding a job is affected not only by individual effort but also by the aggregate state of the economy, designing unemployment insurance payments conditional on the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Conservation Policies And Labor Markets: Unraveling The Effects Of National Parks On Local Wages In Costa Rica
Feb 2010
Despite the global environmental benefits of increasing the amount of protected areas, how these conservation policies affect the well-being of nearby individuals is still under debate. Using...
Provided by Resources for the Future
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Occupational Diversification And Access To Rural Employment: Revisiting The Non Farm Employment Debate
Mar 2008
The non-farm sector, particularly in rural areas is being accorded wide recognition in recent years as a potent instrument for alleviating rural poverty and providing employment opportunities. A...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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ESG Market Report:Augmenting Data Backup and Recovery with System-level Protection
Mar 2011
Digital information is fundamental to conducting business. Whether it's e-mail communications, supply chain management, sales order processing, content management, customer relationship management...
Provided by Symantec
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Diversified Occupations, Offshoring And Labor Market Volatility
Nov 2007
This paper asks a simple question: Are occupations that are well diversified across sectors less volatile, and maybe less susceptible to external shocks? Most external shocks (e.g. manufacturing...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Explaining The Gaps In Labour Productivity For Some Developed Countries
Nov 2007
Modern economic theories explain differences in productivity and economic growth across countries by differences in political and economic institutions, and differences in culture, geographical...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Foresight Methodologies To Understand Changes In The Labour Process: Experience From Portugal
Nov 2007
The foresight and scenario building methods can be an interesting reference for social sciences, especially in terms of innovative methods for labour process analysis. A scenario - as a central...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Schooling And The Distribution Of Wages In The European Private And Public Sectors
Nov 2007
International research has shown that schooling enhances within-groups wage dispersion. This assessment is typically based on private sector data and, up to date, the inequality implications of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Employment Protection And Labor Productivity: Positive Or Negative?
Nov 2008
Since the 1980s, many European countries have implemented labor market reforms, introducing more flexible labor contracts. This paper develops a matching model with heterogeneous matches in order...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Labour Market Flexibility: The Case Of Visegrad Countries
Dec 2008
The presented paper deals with labour market institutions and labour market flexibility in the Visegrád countries. The authors can find out in theoretical literature a traditional set of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Low Wage Work In High Employment Growth Economy, Spain 1994-2004
Mar 2009
Income from work is the major source of income for most European and Spanish families. According to the information available, around 70% of the family income of European families comes from work...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Occupations And The Structure Of Wage Inequality In The United States, 1980s-2000s
Jun 2009
Occupations have long been regarded as central to the stratification systems of industrial countries, but have played little role in empirical attempts to explain the well-documented increases in...
Provided by University of North Carolina
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Stepping Stone Versus "Dead End" Jobs: Occupational Pathways Out Of Working Poverty In The United States, 1996-2007
Aug 2010
In this paper the authors test for the existence of pathways of upward mobility for low wage workers by studying patterns of mobility in the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and...
Provided by University of North Carolina
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It Takes Three To Tango In Employment: Matching Vocational Education Organisations, Students And Companies In Labour Markets
Dec 2007
The authors examine the determinants of labour market status after the initial vocational basic education (ISCED 3) by use of unique linked register data on students, their parents, teachers,...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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Intangible Capital And Wages: An Analysis Of Wage Gaps Across Occupations And Genders In Czech Republic, Finland And Norway
Apr 2011
This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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Labour Productivity And Firm Entry And Exit In Manufacturing
Aug 2008
This paper investigates the connection between firm entry and exit and labour productivity growth. The paper has its theoretical foundations in modern Schumpeterian growth theory, distance to...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Integrating Internal Communications, Human Resource Management And Marketing Concepts Into The New Internal Marketing Philosophy
Oct 2008
Successful companies attach great importance to human resource management and internal communications; because they are aware of the value of those activities and of strategic advantage they can...
Provided by University of Zagreb
-
White Papers
Do Frictions Matter In The Labor Market? Accessions, Separations And Minimum Wage Effects
Oct 2010
The authors provide the first test of the effects of U.S. minimum wages on labor market flows (accession, separation and turnover rates). Using county pairs straddling borders with minimum wage...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
-
White Papers
Employee Replacement Costs
Mar 2010
The authors investigate properties of employee replacement costs, using a panel survey of California businesses in 2003 and 2008. They establish that replacement costs are substantial relative to...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
-
White Papers
The Changing Structure Of Employment In Contemporary China
Oct 2009
China is the twenty-first century's "Workshop of the world," absorbing natural resources from Africa, Latin America and the rest of Asia and exporting manufactured goods, much as England did...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
-
White Papers
Choice Of Law And Employee Restrictive Covenants
Sep 2009
Employees are increasingly mobile across state lines. This is partly the result of technological change that facilitates individual movement and communication, but also a result of corresponding...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
-
White Papers
Spatial Heterogeneity And Minimum Wages: Employment Estimates For Teens Using Cross-State Commuting Zones
Jun 2009
Conventional approaches to estimating the effect of minimum wages on teen employment insufficiently account for heterogeneous employment patterns and selectivity of states with higher minimum...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
-
White Papers
Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages In The Low Wage Service Occupations? Evidence From Janitors And Guards
Aug 2008
Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the eighties and nineties, and was associated with lower wages, less benefits, and lower rates of unionization. The authors focus on two...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
-
White Papers
Employees' Choice Of Method Of Pay
Feb 2009
Who chooses what type of pay? The costs and benefits of "Flexible" and "Cafeteria-style" benefit plans have been discussed for some time. Additionally, many papers have considered the potential...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
The Human Resource Economics Of Vernon Briggs
Jun 2009
This paper examines the conception of Human Resource Economics (HRE) that shaped the career of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. It probes the history of economic thought to describe the intellectual roots of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
Mar 2008
Many countries have legislation which makes it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Changing An Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
Nov 2008
High information recruitment practices (e.g., personal communication from a recruiter) from both single and multiple sources were more effective for changing unfavorable employment reputation...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Employee Attributions Of The "Why" Of HR Practices: Their Effects On Employee Attitudes And Behaviors, And Customer Satisfaction
Dec 2007
The construct of Human Resource (HR) Attributions is introduced. The authors argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Human Resource Practices And Organizational Commitment: A Deeper Examination
Dec 2007
This paper examines newer conceptualizations of HRM practices in the HR-Performance Relationship as well as newer conceptualizations of commitment. Juxtaposing these categories of HR practices and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
The Labor Market Experience And Impact Of Undocumented Workers
Jun 2008
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
-
White Papers
Crime And The Labor Market: A Search Model With Optimal Contracts
Oct 2007
This paper extends the Pissarides (2000) model of the labor market to include crime and punishment 'a la Becker (1968). All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
-
White Papers
Identification Of Models Of The Labor Market
Sep 2010
This chapter discusses identification of common selection models of the labor market. The authors start with the classic Roy model and show how it can be identified with exclusion restrictions....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
-
White Papers
Technological Progress, Organizational Change And The Size Of The Human Resources Department
Jun 2008
Innovative workplace practices based on multi-tasking and ICT that have been diffusing in most OECD countries since the 1990s have strong consequences on working conditions. Available data show...
Provided by University of Glasgow
-
White Papers
Beyond The Joneses: Inter-Country Income Comparisons And Happiness
Jan 2011
The paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
The Driving Force Of Labor Force Participation In Developed Countries
Jun 2008
The evolution of labor force participation rate is modeled using a lagged linear function of real economic growth, as expressed by GDP per capita. For the U.S., the model predicts at a two-year...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Obesity And Labor Market Outcomes: New Danish Evidence
Dec 2007
This paper analyzes the relationship between three body weight measures, employment status and wages, thereby broadening the perspective of the literature on obesity and labor market outcomes. The...
Provided by Henvendelser
-
White Papers
Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, And The Choice Of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence From New Japanese Data
Nov 2007
This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling...
Provided by Henvendelser
-
White Papers
Informality And Productivity In The Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001
Jul 2007
Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working at the margins of labor market legislation or in microenterprises that lack...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
-
White Papers
The Labor Market Returns To Cognitive And Noncognitive Ability: Evidence From The Swedish Enlistment
Mar 2009
The authors use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive ability for labor market out-comes. The...
Provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics
-
White Papers
Globalization And Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Dec 2010
This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched...
Provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics
-
White Papers
Inflation Dynamics And Labor Market Dynamics Revisited
Jun 2007
Firms adjust labor both at the intensive and at the extensive margin (see, e.g., Hansen and Sargent 1988). Moreover, employment adjustment is not frictionless (see, e.g., Mortensen and Pissarides...
Provided by Duke University
-
White Papers
Are Active Labour Market Programmes Least Effective Where They Are Most Needed? The Case Of The British New Deal For Young People
Sep 2010
One view of Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) is that they are 'Most needed' in slack labor markets, where more unemployed workers require help finding jobs. But ALMPs might be less effective...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Immigration Background And The Intergenerational Correlation In Education
Jun 2010
This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. The authors find that young Australians from Non-English-Speaking...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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How Does A Worker?s Labour Market History Affect Job Duration?
May 2010
This paper explores the relation between a worker's job duration and prior labor market experience. Hazard models are estimated using data on employment spells for the population aged 25 to 64...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Does Part-Time Employment Help Or Hinder Lone Mothers? Movements Into Full-Time Employment?
Dec 2009
A significant demographic trend in recent decades in Australia has been the growth in lone parent families as a proportion of all families, associated with which has been growth in welfare...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Overskilling Dynamics And Education Pathways
Jul 2009
This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of over skilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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A Latent Variable Approach To Forecasting The Unemployment Rate
Jul 2009
A forecasting model for unemployment is constructed that exploits the time-series properties of unemployment while satisfying the economic relationships specified by Okun's law and the Phillips...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Phillips Curve And The Equilibrium Rate Of Unemployment
Oct 2008
A time-varying Phillips curve was estimated as a means to examine the changing nature of the negative relationship between wage inflation and the unemployment rate in Australia. The implied...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Problem Of Overskilling In Australia And Britain
Nov 2007
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labor market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported over skilling in...
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Assessing The Incidence And Wage Effects Of Over-skilling In The Australian Labour Market
Nov 2007
This paper examines the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling within the Australian labor market. It finds that approximately 30 percent of employees believed themselves to be moderately...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Paid Annual Leave And Working Hours
Jul 2007
Using data from wave 5 of the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this paper examines the extent to which Australian employees use their annual leave entitlements;...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Changing Distribution Of Working Hours In Australia
Jul 2007
This paper presents statistical evidence on the nature of working time arrangements in Australia, and especially their distribution. More specifically, the paper analyses: the distribution of...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Protection Of Employees In A Transmission Of Business: What Is Left In The Wake Of WorkChoices And Subsequent Statutory Amendments
Nov 2007
Regulation of the employment relationship in the context of a transmission of business has undergone substantial revision as a result of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Happiness As An Objective Of Labour Law
Feb 2010
While the idea of happiness at work has been recognized in other fields, there has been relatively little research into the relationship between labor law and happiness in leading law reviews....
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Employment Entitlements To Carer~s Leave: Domesticating Diverse Subjectivities
Nov 2009
This paper explores the normative underpinnings of two main sets of minimum employment standards in Australia: parental leave following birth or adoption of a child, and personal/carer's leave in...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Monetary Policy In The Presence Of Informal Labour Markets
Mar 2010
In this paper the authors analyze the effects of informal labor markets on the dynamics of inflation and on the transmission of aggregate demand and supply shocks. In doing so, they incorporate...
Provided by Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
