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Human Resource Management And Decentralization In Botswana And South Africa
Nov 2009
This paper seeks to understand the relationship between decentralization and human resource management in Botswana and South Africa. The study is situated within the context of the New Public...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
White Paper On Interoperability Between Acquisitions Modules Of Integrated Library Systems And Electronic Resource Management Systems
Jan 2008
The white paper investigates interoperability between the acquisitions modules of integrated library systems (ILS) and electronic resource management systems (ERMS). The paper concludes with a...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Integrating Diversity Management Initiatives With Strategic Human Resource Management
Jun 2010
Managing diversity is usually viewed in broad conceptual terms as recognizing and valuing differences among people; it is directed towards achieving organizational outcomes and reflects management...
Provided by University of Southern Queensland
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White Papers
Development Of A Human Resources Development Strategy In Croatian Civil Service
Apr 2010
Croatia has many similarities with the majority of the countries in transition in building and developing civil society institutions, multi-party democracy and free markets, both in relation to...
Provided by NISPAcee
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White Papers
Human Resource Accounting's Role In Organizational Sustainability
Dec 2009
This paper suggests that Human Resource Accounting (HRA) can facilitate enterprise sustainability. Traditional accounting has treated costs related to a company's human resources as expenses on...
Provided by Clayton State University
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White Papers
Understanding Human Resource Management
Jun 2009
Work life is undergoing sea changes. Every organization understands that change is vital for survival. Human Resource Management must take a proactive role in deciding on the desired change,...
Provided by Romtech Info Solutions
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White Papers
Human Resource Management And Learning Based On In-House R&D: The Pharmaceutical Industry In Mexico
Jan 2009
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management practices on the likelihood that a firm performs in-house Research and Development (R&D). The latter is broadly interpreted as...
Provided by United Nations Industrial Development Organization
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White Papers
Encyclopedia Of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges In e-HRM
Aug 2010
The dominant discourse in education and training policies, at the turn of the millennium, was on LifeLong Learning (LLL) in the context of a knowledge-based society. Globalization has exacerbated...
Provided by Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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White Papers
An Overview Of The Influence Of Globalization And Internationalization On Domestic Human Resource Management In New Zealand
Mar 2009
New Zealand organizations have outgrown their geographical boundaries. Globalization and internationalization are demanding that managers adapt new policies and procedures to stay competitive in...
Provided by World Business Institute
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
The Goal of Management; from MBO to Deming to Project Management and Beyond
Oct 2008
Remember MBAware in the 90's? Well, maybe one doesn't. How about management by objectives in the 50's, 60's and 70's? How about Deming and quality circles? What happened to those models for...
Provided by Performance Solutions Technology
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
On The Size Of The Active Management Industry
Jan 2010
The authors argue that the popularity of active management is not puzzling despite the industry's poor track record. The model features decreasing returns to scale: as the industries size...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
The Effects Of Human Resource Management Practices On Firm Productivity - Preliminary Evidence From Finland
Jan 2008
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the nature and effects of Human Resource practices (HRM) in the Finnish manufacturing sector. In the analysis, the authors use the novel survey...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Is Inequality Growing As American Workers Fall Behind?
Nov 2007
A popular and highly politicized theme today is that US workers are falling behind as their real wages fall and income gets redistributed to the rich. This paper looks at some reasons that income...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Human Resource Management: Some Vital Considerations
Apr 2011
Are human beings 'Resources'? On this question there is a sharp division in opinions. There are scholars, not much ethically inclined, who adore the practice of considering human beings as...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Enhancing Interns' Aspirations Towards The Labour Market Through Skill-Acquisition: The Second Chance Schools Experience
Jul 2010
Second Change School programmes are active in a number of European countries. These schools offer vulnerable young adults an alternative opportunity to enhance their employability skills by...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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White Papers
Relative Factor Return Gaps In Labour Markets And Global Integration
Nov 2007
The authors estimate the role of openness and integration in welfare generation in a cross country framework. Once controlling for institutions, openness is generally associated with increased...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Deducing Varieties Of Capitalism
Nov 2007
One of the key criticisms made of the Varieties of Capitalism perspective advanced by Hall and Soskice (2001) is that it is functionalist. Here, the author offers a deductive model of capitalism...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Workers~ Enterprises In The Case Of Arts Production
Nov 2007
This paper shows that the standard result according to which labour-managed firms produce a lower amount of output, as compared to profit-maximising firms, is reversed if production per se gives...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
International Production/Distribution Networks And Domestic Operations In Terms Of Employment And Corporate Organization: Microdata Analysis Of Japanese Firms
Dec 2007
This paper empirically investigates patterns of globalizing corporate activities and their domestic operations and trade, using firm-level panel data on Japanese firms in 1998-2003. Journalistic...
Provided by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
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White Papers
TFP Growth Slowdown And The Japanese Labor Market In The 1990s
Jan 2009
Unemployment in Japan nearly tripled during the 1990s. Underlying this upsurge lie an increase in the probability of workers to lose their jobs and a decrease in the probability that the...
Provided by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
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White Papers
Stochastic Origin Of Scaling Laws In Productivity And Employment Dispersion
Apr 2011
Labor and productivity play central roles in the aging population problem in all developed countries. The understanding of labor allocation among different productivity levels is required for...
Provided by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
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White Papers
Japan~s Labor Market Cyclicality And The Volatility Puzzle
Apr 2011
The search and matching model has recently come under criticism for its inability to account for some of the cyclical properties of the U.S. labor market. Shimer (2005) has shown that the basic...
Provided by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
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White Papers
Changes In Japan~s Labor Market Flows Due To The Lost Decade
Apr 2011
The authors construct worker flows for the Japanese labor market in an internationally comparable manner, and study the consequences of the deep and lasting recession of the 1990s in the Japanese...
Provided by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
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White Papers
Labor-Management Bargaining, Labor Standards And International Rivalry
Apr 2009
Using the labor union's bargaining power as an indication of government policy on labor standards issues, the authors analyze the competition between a domestic (North) firm and a foreign (South)...
Provided by Kobe University
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White Papers
Distortions, Infrastructure And Labor Supply In Latin American Countries
Dec 2010
The author documents differences in labor supply between a set of Latin American countries and the U.S. in the period 1990-2005. These differences are mostly explained by large differences in...
Provided by Universidad De La Republica
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White Papers
Racial Inequality In The Uruguayan Labor Market: An Analysis Of Wage Differentials Between Afrodescendants And Whites
Sep 2010
Latin America is a region of sharp inequalities that are far from ethnically blind. In particular, there exists a significant socioeconomic gap between Latin Americans of European and the...
Provided by Universidad De La Republica
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White Papers
The Effect Of Minimum Wages On Labor Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates From The Restaurant-And-Bar Sector
Dec 2007
The authors use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. The empirical approach is...
Provided by Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
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White Papers
Labor Market: Data From The German Federal Employment Services
Jul 2009
This contribution shows the increasing supply on German micro data over the last years for labor market research. The authors focus on the research data centre movement, the development of new...
Provided by German Data Forum (RatSWD)
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White Papers
Labor Market And Immigration Behavior Of Middle-Aged And Elderly Mexicans
Dec 2009
In this paper the authors analyzed the retirement behavior of Mexicans with migration spells to the United States that returned to Mexico and non-migrants. The analysis is based on rich panel data...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Labor Market Status And Transitions During The Pre-Retirement Years
Nov 2007
Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. The authors use the...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Improving The Labor Market Outcomes Of Minorities: The Role Of Employment Quota
Oct 2008
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Case Studies
Postbank Centralizes HR System
Jul 2009
In 2006 Postbank took over 850 Deutsche Post branches and acquired the majority of BHW Holding AG. The integration of the newly acquired entities within Postbank's organizational structure was the...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
What Drives The Unemployment Rate In Poland
Nov 2008
This paper studies flows on the labour market in Poland in 1995- 2008. The authors show that the main driving force behind the unemployment rate is the behaviour of outflow to employment....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Housing Liquidity, Mobility, And The Labour Market
Oct 2010
The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an economy with heterogeneous locations, endogenous construction and search...
Provided by Queen's Economics Department
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White Papers
Unemployment Policy: Unemployment, Underemployment And Labour Market Insecurity
Jan 2009
In this paper the authors argue that Australia's labour market features too much unemployment, underemployment or associated forms of labour market insecurity. The later term implies a weak or...
Provided by University of Queensland
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White Papers
Ethnic Parity In Labour Market Outcomes For Benefit Claimants In Great Britain
Jun 2010
Accurate estimates of the extent of ethnic parity amongst benefit claimants are very important for policymakers who provide interventions for these groups. The authors use new administrative data...
Provided by University of London
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White Papers
Internal Versus External Labour Flexibility: The Role Of Knowledge Codification
Apr 2011
This paper uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. The authors argue that increasing knowledge codification made...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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White Papers
Oracle HRMS For The Human Resources Management In The Public Sector
Dec 2008
Oracle Human Resources (Oracle HRMS) represents a strong set of applications for the optimization of the human capital an organization disposes of. In the new economy, based on the Internet, the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Creating New Regions, Improving Regional Welfare Equality?
Jan 2009
In concurrent with reformation and decentralization, number of sub-national administrative in Indonesia increase significantly. Existing regions has been splitting to create new regions. As the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Study Regarding The Increasing Of Human Resource Quality In Academic Activity
Feb 2009
The life of any organization is not only manifested through its activities, but also by subjective states that its members live and shape its human dimension. Involved in carrying out different...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Early Cessation Of Activity In The Labour Market: Impact Of Supply And Demand Factors
Feb 2009
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the problem of population ageing in terms of the cessation of professional activity (and especially premature labour market withdrawals) in order to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Dual Poverty Trap: Intra- And Intergenerational Linkages In Frictional Labor Markets
Feb 2009
This paper constructs an overlapping generations model with a frictional labor market to explain persistent low education in developing countries. When parents are uneducated, their children often...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Links Between Literacy And Numeracy Skills And Labour Market Outcomes
Aug 2010
Governments in Australia are interested in ways to improve human capital. For example, improving human capital is a key stream of the Council Of Australian Government's (COAG's) National Reform...
Provided by Commonwealth of Australia
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White Papers
White Paper On Interoperability Between Acquisitions Modules Of Integrated Library Systems And Electronic Resource Management Systems
Jan 2008
The white paper investigates interoperability between the acquisitions modules of integrated library systems (ILS) and electronic resource management systems (ERMS). The paper concludes with a...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Integrating Diversity Management Initiatives With Strategic Human Resource Management
Jun 2010
Managing diversity is usually viewed in broad conceptual terms as recognizing and valuing differences among people; it is directed towards achieving organizational outcomes and reflects management...
Provided by University of Southern Queensland
-
White Papers
Development Of A Human Resources Development Strategy In Croatian Civil Service
Apr 2010
Croatia has many similarities with the majority of the countries in transition in building and developing civil society institutions, multi-party democracy and free markets, both in relation to...
Provided by NISPAcee
-
White Papers
Human Resource Accounting's Role In Organizational Sustainability
Dec 2009
This paper suggests that Human Resource Accounting (HRA) can facilitate enterprise sustainability. Traditional accounting has treated costs related to a company's human resources as expenses on...
Provided by Clayton State University
-
White Papers
Understanding Human Resource Management
Jun 2009
Work life is undergoing sea changes. Every organization understands that change is vital for survival. Human Resource Management must take a proactive role in deciding on the desired change,...
Provided by Romtech Info Solutions
-
White Papers
Human Resource Management And Learning Based On In-House R&D: The Pharmaceutical Industry In Mexico
Jan 2009
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management practices on the likelihood that a firm performs in-house Research and Development (R&D). The latter is broadly interpreted as...
Provided by United Nations Industrial Development Organization
-
White Papers
Encyclopedia Of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges In e-HRM
Aug 2010
The dominant discourse in education and training policies, at the turn of the millennium, was on LifeLong Learning (LLL) in the context of a knowledge-based society. Globalization has exacerbated...
Provided by Universidade Nova de Lisboa
-
White Papers
An Overview Of The Influence Of Globalization And Internationalization On Domestic Human Resource Management In New Zealand
Mar 2009
New Zealand organizations have outgrown their geographical boundaries. Globalization and internationalization are demanding that managers adapt new policies and procedures to stay competitive in...
Provided by World Business Institute
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
The Goal of Management; from MBO to Deming to Project Management and Beyond
Oct 2008
Remember MBAware in the 90's? Well, maybe one doesn't. How about management by objectives in the 50's, 60's and 70's? How about Deming and quality circles? What happened to those models for...
Provided by Performance Solutions Technology
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
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
-
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
-
White Papers
On The Size Of The Active Management Industry
Jan 2010
The authors argue that the popularity of active management is not puzzling despite the industry's poor track record. The model features decreasing returns to scale: as the industries size...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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