Search Results - subject:"STAFFING"

The economics of labor adjustment : mind the gap

Cooper, Russel John; Willis, Jonathan L. - 2001

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Human capital spill-overs within the workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

An individual's human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched workerworkplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...

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Human capital spill-overs within the workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405545

The Economics of Labor Adjustment : Mind the Gap

Cooper, Russell W. - 2001

We study the inferences about labor adjustment costs obtained by the 'gap methodology' of Caballero and Engel [1993] and Caballero, Engel and Haltiwanger [1997]. In that approach, the policy function of a manufacturing plant is assumed to depend on the gap between a target and the current level...

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Expatriates of host-country origin: 'Coming home to test the waters'

Thite, Mohan; Srinivasan, Vasanthi; Harvey, Michael; … - 2009

Expatriates are an integral part of any multinational company's (MNC) staffing strategy. However, the high failure rate … of expatriates has forced these firms to look at alternate or complementary staffing strategies. This paper focuses on …-country origin (EHCO) as a global staffing strategy, in the context of India, and the extent of its success both for the individuals …

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Why university inventions rarely produce income? Bottlenecks in university technology transfer

Swamidass, Paul; Vulasa, Venubabu - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 34 (2009) 4, pp. 343-363

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Labour resources in the innovation and traditional sectors of regional economy

Arsentyeva, N.M.; Busygin, V.V.; Kharchenko, I.I. - In: Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology" 3 (2009)

We show how the labour behaviour and stuffing models are shaping in an innovation sector of the economy as well as the incentives and factors of such shaping. We also assess to what degree the educational, professional, labour and personality potential of the professionally trained youth is...

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Performance Analysis of a Queue with Congestion-Based Staffing Policy

Zhang, Zhe George - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 2, pp. 240-251

average queue length within a certain range is the primary objective. This is achieved using a staffing policy, called … "congestion-based staffing," or CBS, where the number of servers (inspection booths) is adjusted according to the queue length …

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Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys: The Peculiar Incentives in Teacher Retirement Systems and Their Consequences for School Staffing

Costrell, Robert M.; Podgursky, Michael - In: Education Finance and Policy 4 (2009) April, pp. 175-211

This article examines the pattern of incentives for work versus retirement in six state teacher pension systems. We do this by examining the annual accrual of pension wealth from an additional year of work over a teacher's career. Accrual of wealth is highly nonlinear and heavily loaded at...

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New Data for Dynamic Analysis : The Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (Bits) File

2009

The Business Information Tracking Series (BITS) file,developed in 1996 by the U. S. Census Bureau and the Small BusinessAdministration's Office of Advocacy, offers numerous research opportunities forscholars frustrated by the lack of accurate and comprehensive longitudinaldata.The BITS file...

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