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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Downward Wage Rigidity And Automatic Wage Indexation: Evidence From Monthly Micro Wage Data
Dec 2010
This paper assesses the degree of downward wage rigidity in Luxembourg using an administrative monthly data set on individual wages covering the entire economy over the period from January 2001 to...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Changes In The Austrian Structure Of Wages, 1996-2002: Evidence From Linked Employer-Employee Data
Nov 2010
Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys the authors find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Changes In The Czech Wage Structure: Does Immigration Matter?
Sep 2010
Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, the authors find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Time Variation In U.S. Wage Dynamics
Jul 2010
This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Changes In The Wage Structure In EU Countries
May 2010
The authors study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Wage And Price Setting Behaviour Of Lithuanian Firms
May 2010
This paper investigates the wage and price setting behaviour of Lithuanian firms on the basis of an ad hoc survey "On Price and Wage Setting" undertaken by the Bank of Lithuania. The paper...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Labor Market Institutions And The Business Cycle Unemployment Rigidities Vs. Real Wage Rigidities
Apr 2010
This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the New Keynesian framework the authors argue that labor market institutions...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials In EU Countries: What Do Cross-Country Time Varying Data Add To The Picture?
Apr 2010
This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Is There A Signalling Role For Public Wages? Evidence For The Euro Area Based On Macro Data
Jan 2010
Do public sector wages exert pressures on private sector wages, or has the private sector a leadership role in wage setting? One sector might exert on the other by controlling for other...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
The Management Of Human Resources In The Asia Pacific: Into The 21st Century
Nov 2007
In this introduction, the authors look at the management of human resources in the Asia Pacific region. They start with an overview of the countries involved, ranging from the hugely populated...
Provided by Rainer Hampp Verlag
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White Papers
Bureaucratic And Strategic Human Resource Management: An Empirical Comparison In The Federal Government
Oct 2007
Proposals to reform the highly regulated personnel system that governs the majority of federal employees are the focus of national debate. This paper compares two contrasting personnel systems,...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Implementation Dynamics Of Performance Management In Higher Education
Jul 2008
This paper discusses the issue of performance management in a higher education context, with particular attention to the extent to which employee performance management systems have been...
Provided by Ghent University
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White Papers
Inequality, Interactions, And Human Development
Aug 2009
The Human Development Index, which is multidimensional by construction, is criticized on the ground that it is insensitive to any form of inequality across persons. Inequality in the...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
South-South Migration And Human Development Reflections On African Experiences
May 2009
This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries - or countries of the global 'South' - and processes of human development. The paper offers a critical analysis...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
The Impact Of Human Resource Management Practices On Marketing Executive Turnover Of Leasing Companies In Sri Lanka
Sep 2007
This paper empirically evaluated six Human Resource (HR) practices (realistic job information, job analysis, work family balance, career development, compensation and supervisor support) and their...
Provided by University of Kelaniya
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White Papers
Downward Wage Rigidity For Different Workers And Firms: An Evaluation For Belgium Using The IWFP Procedure
Dec 2007
This paper evaluates the extent of downward nominal and real wage rigidity for different categories of workers and firms using the methodology recently developed by the International Wage...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
The Cyclicality Of Effective Wages Within Employer-Employee Matches: Evidence From German Panel Data
Jul 2007
Using individual based micro-data from the German SOcio-Economic Panel study (SOEP), the author analyzes the cyclicality of real wages for male workers within employer-employee matches over the...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Employment Protection Legislation And Wages
Jul 2007
In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract. The authors give empirical content to this proposition by...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity In The OECD
Jul 2007
Recent micro studies have documented extensive Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity (DNWR) for job stayers in many OECD countries, but the effect on aggregate variables remains disputed. Using data for...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Institutional Features Of Wage Bargaining In 23 European Countries, The US And Japan
Dec 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. The authors' data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Interactions Between Private And Public Sector Wages
Nov 2008
The authors analyse the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. They motivate the analysis with a dynamic labour market equilibrium model with search...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Public And Private Sector Wages: Co-Movement And Causality
Nov 2008
This paper looks at public and private sector wages interactions since the 1960s in the euro area, euro area countries and a number of other OECD countries. The paper reports, first, a strong...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Resuscitating The Wage Channel In Models With Unemployment Fluctuations
Aug 2008
All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to shocks. This view of the wage channel is deeply entrenched in central banks'...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Why Do Europeans Work Part-Time? A Cross-Country Panel Analysis.
Feb 2008
This empirical paper seeks to determine the relative contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries over the 1980s and...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
How Do Firms Adjust Their Wage Bill In Belgium? A Decomposition Along The Intensive And Extensive Margins
Jan 2008
This paper decomposes wage bill changes at the firm level into components due to wage changes, and components due to net flows of employment. The analysis relies on an administrative...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?
Oct 2009
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Wage-Setting Behavior In France: Additional Evidence From An Ad-Hoc Survey
Oct 2009
The authors investigate the wage-setting behavior of French companies using an ad-hoc survey conducted specifically for this paper. Their main results are the following. Wages are changed...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Public And Private Sector Wages Interactions In A General Equilibrium Model
Oct 2009
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the public and the private sector interact in the labor market. Previous studies that analyze the labor market effects of public...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
How Are Firms? Wages And Prices Linked: Survey Evidence In Europe
Aug 2009
This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of price and wage adjustment in European firms and on the extent of nominal rigidities. It uses a unique dataset collected through a firm-level...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
HR TECHNOLOGY: The New Approach To Establishing A Solid Business Case
Nov 2010
When preparing the HRMS business, serious consideration must be given to the cost of paying multiple hosting fees, implementing multiple products, integrating multiple databases, maintaining...
Provided by Jeitosa Group International
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White Papers
A Matrix Approval Process For Labor Actuals
Sep 2010
What is it that has otherwise well-organized companies implement two, three or even more timesheet systems at the same time? What would prompt otherwise rational people to supporting multiple...
Provided by Heuristic Management Systems
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Human Resources Audits: Six Ways Electronic Document Management (EDM) Can Help You Comply
Nov 2010
Managers who are worth their salt work hard to ensure employees have the tools they need to handle everyday business and tackle potential challenges. Strategic planning, appropriate policies and...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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White Papers
Employee Benefits, Grievances, And Termination: EDM And Workflow Help Manage HR
Nov 2010
Life can be intense. Every day, employee dramas enter the workplace unsolicited. Some of the greatest workplace concerns one face as HR professionals, employees, and caring colleagues are making...
Provided by Optical Image Technology
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White Papers
Information Empowers Oracle Human Resources Management System
Feb 2009
People-related costs now constitute the majority of total corporate expenditures, and leading firms have embraced the need to better manage their human capital and build a more effective...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Secrets Of Senior Management Buy-In
Sep 2008
When considering the implementation of a HR management system, the topic of senior management buy-in often raises its head. This is common not only in situations where a company is changing a...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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White Papers
The HR Department Is An Organization's Backbone For Success
Jan 2010
There is not doubt that the work world is changing. In the last couple of years, the global economy began to flat-line with downsizing, closed factories, jobless professionals - leading to home...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
HR Consulting: Run Your Business Effectively
Jan 2009
In the world of business, managing human capital is an important aspect of being successful. Many companies keep their costs down by hiring an outside human resource consulting firm to handle...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Human Resources Consulting- The Benefits For Your Business
Jan 2010
Most small businesses don't even consider using human resources, but it's not uncommon to find larger companies ignoring this potentially beneficial area, as well. Human resource consulting can be...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Assessment And Development Centers In Employee Selection And Development
Jan 2010
An assessment center is a methodology (rather than a place) for thoroughly assessing a candidate for a job. A development center follows similar principles, but rather than selection, its primary...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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The Helping Hand To All Business: HR Consulting
Jan 2010
When companies try to evaluate themselves, internally, they are forever looking for ways to push the company forward, taking it to the top. People look at expenditures and new avenues and trends,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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The Benefits Of Using Employee Schedule Software
Jan 2010
For workplaces that make use of numerous varying schedules, it can be useful to have something to keep everything organized. A great way to do this is to use employee schedule software. The...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Human Resources Planning: It's More Than Filling Vacancies For The Next Few Months
Jan 2010
Constant planning is what most business people do so they are ready for changing circumstances. Is human resource planning or workforce planning up there with the budget? Possibly not. Quite...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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How HR Consulting Can Help Your Bottom Line
Jan 2010
The job of finding, recruiting and keeping quality employees is a daunting task. Even with the economic situation in such a dire condition, finding quality employees with the specific skills you...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Building A Truly Global HR Organisation
Jan 2010
As organisations become increasingly more global, both employees and managers are drawn into international projects and initiatives. Yet at the same time their close relationship with the people...
Provided by Global Integration
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White Papers
Make Your Matrix Really Work
Jan 2010
Do you want to make your Matrix organization really work? Many organizations have introduced Matrix organization structures to reflect the reality that local, global, product, customer and job...
Provided by Global Integration
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White Papers
Matrix Management Reinvented Smashing The Functional Barriers To Managing Business Processes
Jun 2010
In most organizations, functions are king and getting work done cross-functionally is difficult at best. For years companies have tried to solve this problem by changing the culture or...
Provided by Paula K. Martin
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White Papers
Talent Management In Motion: Keeping Up With An Evolving Workforce
Oct 2007
As the findings of this study make clear, HR leaders are acutely aware of the many seismic changes reshaping North America's workforces. They understand the power of talent and the necessity of...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
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White Papers
Developing A High-Performing Workforce
Jan 2010
Across all industries, non-management professionals are skilled technically but come up short interpersonally. Technical skills are immensely important at this level, but without the ability to...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
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White Papers
Metrics For Human Resource Management
Jan 2010
Human Resource Metrics has become important for Balanced Scorecards and other performance measurement systems. The reason is due to the need for effective management over human resource capital;...
Provided by Matt H. Evans
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White Papers
The Complexities Of Matrix Management Are 'Mindset' Not 'Structural'
Jan 2010
Matrix Management is probably the ideal form of organisation for dealing with the complexities of change. Matrix Management enables organisations to allocate resources, notably people, to special...
Provided by Philip Atkinson & Co
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White Papers
Chief Executive Concerns On Matrix Management
Jan 2010
Without any shadow of a doubt it will require more work, late nights, early morning but the results are worth it. You can turn around a sleepy, silo driven organisation and turn it into a sleek,...
Provided by Philip Atkinson & Co
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White Papers
Measuring Improvement In The Matrix Culture
Jan 2010
It's always a good idea to undertake an audit before you introduce any change in your business - especially when the change is to bring about a matrix organisation. You have to focus on hard and...
Provided by Philip Atkinson & Co
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White Papers
Matrix Management At The Right Time - Structural Logic For The Information Technology Industry
Jan 2010
One IT company performs secret-cleared projects for the US Government. This firm is growing rapidly and has moved to matrix teams organized by customer as a means for anticipating customer needs...
Provided by Strategic Futures Consulting Group
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White Papers
Choose The Type Of Matrix Your Company Needs: One Size Matrix Does Not Fit All!
Jan 2010
An enterprise that is interested in promoting a one-organization concept centered on carefully defined crosscutting goals may prefer the Planning and Budgeting model where cross-disciplinary teams...
Provided by Strategic Futures Consulting Group
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Hot Intersections: Using The Matrix To Decide What's Hot And What's Not
Jan 2010
All of the interfaces between horizontal teams and vertical functions are "Not created equal." You can display the relative importance of interfaces graphically. You can also stimulate important...
Provided by Strategic Futures Consulting Group
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White Papers
Acquisitions, Mergers? Integration Through Matrix Management
Jan 2010
A matrix organization relies upon a mix of both vertical and horizontal leadership. Vertical leaders manage the delivery of services that allow the entity to earn revenue. They also define the...
Provided by Strategic Futures Consulting Group
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White Papers
Prescription For The "Dual-Hatted Role" In The Matrix Organization: Aggressive Training & Coaching
Jan 2010
Staff and management confusion surrounding which role the dual-hatted individual is playing will surely emerge. Is s/he making the decision based on project imperatives, or on the basis of...
Provided by Strategic Futures Consulting Group
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White Papers
The Flattening Firm And Product Market Competition: The Effect Of Trade Liberalization
Nov 2008
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. The authors exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
What To Look For In A Recruiting Software Package
Jan 2010
Companies need recruiting software to allow recruiters and hiring managers to create and store an unlimited number of requisitions, both for internal and external audiences. All of these...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
What Should Be Included In Employee Evaluation Programs?
Jan 2010
Without a formal employee evaluation program, employee perception of a pay-for-performance environment is that decisions are "Arbitrary and unsubstantiated". This can affect employee morale...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
The New Horizon For Online Compensation Planning Tools
Jan 2010
By linking performance management and compensation systems, a company can get a clear picture of its work force - who is employed, what workers want out of their jobs, who's contributing, who's...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
Use Employee Surveys To Increase Business Execution
Jan 2010
It is important to use valid and reliable questions in the survey that you are prepared to address. A poorly designed survey can create more problems than solutions. Asking questions that the...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
Human Resources Software - So Much To Offer
Jan 2010
These days, human resources software is more than simply an online repository of employee reviews - it's much, much more. Human resources software has evolved into a centralized source of rich,...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
How Online Performance Appraisals Can Make Your Life Easier
Jan 2010
Having an online performance appraisal system allows you access to the data from anywhere - all you need is an Internet connection. Simply log on to your web-based program and view all necessary...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
How Four Organizations Turned HR Into A Powerful Strategic Driver
Jan 2010
Growing global competition is placing extreme pressures on large and small organizations to optimize performance. These competitive forces in turn are raising expectations from customers,...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
Developing Your Succession Plan
Jan 2010
Succession management used to refer to the process of replacing a CEO when the position became vacant due to foreseen or unforeseen circumstances. These days, leading organizations understand the...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
Become A Strategic Partner By Using The "Next Gen" Of HR Information Systems
Jan 2010
This "Next Gen" of HRIS not only expedites the information gathering process, but more importantly, it frees up your HR department to focus on more strategic activities that affect your entire...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
Performance Management Software Current Trends
Nov 2007
Current research on performance management systems shows considerable discontent with prevailing practices being employed by companies, large and small, across numerous industries. Most of the...
Provided by Insala
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White Papers
The Power Of Temptation
Aug 2009
People are not good at anticipating the power of their urges, and those who are the most confident about their self-control are the most likely to give into temptation, said Nordgren. "The key is...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Downward Wage Rigidity And Automatic Wage Indexation: Evidence From Monthly Micro Wage Data
Dec 2010
This paper assesses the degree of downward wage rigidity in Luxembourg using an administrative monthly data set on individual wages covering the entire economy over the period from January 2001 to...
Provided by European Central Bank
-
White Papers
Changes In The Austrian Structure Of Wages, 1996-2002: Evidence From Linked Employer-Employee Data
Nov 2010
Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys the authors find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education...
Provided by European Central Bank
-
White Papers
Changes In The Czech Wage Structure: Does Immigration Matter?
Sep 2010
Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, the authors find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the...
Provided by European Central Bank
-
White Papers
Time Variation In U.S. Wage Dynamics
Jul 2010
This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time...
Provided by European Central Bank
-
White Papers
Changes In The Wage Structure In EU Countries
May 2010
The authors study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Wage And Price Setting Behaviour Of Lithuanian Firms
May 2010
This paper investigates the wage and price setting behaviour of Lithuanian firms on the basis of an ad hoc survey "On Price and Wage Setting" undertaken by the Bank of Lithuania. The paper...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Labor Market Institutions And The Business Cycle Unemployment Rigidities Vs. Real Wage Rigidities
Apr 2010
This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the New Keynesian framework the authors argue that labor market institutions...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials In EU Countries: What Do Cross-Country Time Varying Data Add To The Picture?
Apr 2010
This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Is There A Signalling Role For Public Wages? Evidence For The Euro Area Based On Macro Data
Jan 2010
Do public sector wages exert pressures on private sector wages, or has the private sector a leadership role in wage setting? One sector might exert on the other by controlling for other...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
The Management Of Human Resources In The Asia Pacific: Into The 21st Century
Nov 2007
In this introduction, the authors look at the management of human resources in the Asia Pacific region. They start with an overview of the countries involved, ranging from the hugely populated...
Provided by Rainer Hampp Verlag
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White Papers
Bureaucratic And Strategic Human Resource Management: An Empirical Comparison In The Federal Government
Oct 2007
Proposals to reform the highly regulated personnel system that governs the majority of federal employees are the focus of national debate. This paper compares two contrasting personnel systems,...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Implementation Dynamics Of Performance Management In Higher Education
Jul 2008
This paper discusses the issue of performance management in a higher education context, with particular attention to the extent to which employee performance management systems have been...
Provided by Ghent University
-
White Papers
Inequality, Interactions, And Human Development
Aug 2009
The Human Development Index, which is multidimensional by construction, is criticized on the ground that it is insensitive to any form of inequality across persons. Inequality in the...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
South-South Migration And Human Development Reflections On African Experiences
May 2009
This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries - or countries of the global 'South' - and processes of human development. The paper offers a critical analysis...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
The Impact Of Human Resource Management Practices On Marketing Executive Turnover Of Leasing Companies In Sri Lanka
Sep 2007
This paper empirically evaluated six Human Resource (HR) practices (realistic job information, job analysis, work family balance, career development, compensation and supervisor support) and their...
Provided by University of Kelaniya
-
White Papers
Downward Wage Rigidity For Different Workers And Firms: An Evaluation For Belgium Using The IWFP Procedure
Dec 2007
This paper evaluates the extent of downward nominal and real wage rigidity for different categories of workers and firms using the methodology recently developed by the International Wage...
Provided by European Central Bank
-
White Papers
The Cyclicality Of Effective Wages Within Employer-Employee Matches: Evidence From German Panel Data
Jul 2007
Using individual based micro-data from the German SOcio-Economic Panel study (SOEP), the author analyzes the cyclicality of real wages for male workers within employer-employee matches over the...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Employment Protection Legislation And Wages
Jul 2007
In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract. The authors give empirical content to this proposition by...
Provided by European Central Bank
-
White Papers
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity In The OECD
Jul 2007
Recent micro studies have documented extensive Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity (DNWR) for job stayers in many OECD countries, but the effect on aggregate variables remains disputed. Using data for...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Institutional Features Of Wage Bargaining In 23 European Countries, The US And Japan
Dec 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. The authors' data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Interactions Between Private And Public Sector Wages
Nov 2008
The authors analyse the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. They motivate the analysis with a dynamic labour market equilibrium model with search...
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Public And Private Sector Wages: Co-Movement And Causality
Nov 2008
This paper looks at public and private sector wages interactions since the 1960s in the euro area, euro area countries and a number of other OECD countries. The paper reports, first, a strong...
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Resuscitating The Wage Channel In Models With Unemployment Fluctuations
Aug 2008
All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to shocks. This view of the wage channel is deeply entrenched in central banks'...
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Why Do Europeans Work Part-Time? A Cross-Country Panel Analysis.
Feb 2008
This empirical paper seeks to determine the relative contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries over the 1980s and...
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How Do Firms Adjust Their Wage Bill In Belgium? A Decomposition Along The Intensive And Extensive Margins
Jan 2008
This paper decomposes wage bill changes at the firm level into components due to wage changes, and components due to net flows of employment. The analysis relies on an administrative...
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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?
Oct 2009
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings...
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Wage-Setting Behavior In France: Additional Evidence From An Ad-Hoc Survey
Oct 2009
The authors investigate the wage-setting behavior of French companies using an ad-hoc survey conducted specifically for this paper. Their main results are the following. Wages are changed...
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Public And Private Sector Wages Interactions In A General Equilibrium Model
Oct 2009
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the public and the private sector interact in the labor market. Previous studies that analyze the labor market effects of public...
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How Are Firms? Wages And Prices Linked: Survey Evidence In Europe
Aug 2009
This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of price and wage adjustment in European firms and on the extent of nominal rigidities. It uses a unique dataset collected through a firm-level...
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Wealth Effects On Consumption: Evidence From The Euro Area
May 2009
This paper estimates the wealth effects on consumption in the euro area as a whole. The author shows that: financial wealth effects are relatively large and statistically significant; housing...
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Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures In The Euro Area
Mar 2009
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU...
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