Search Results - subject:"workers' effort"

Beltrametti, Luca; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

We study the impact of monitoring in a workplace context where both firms and employees are unable to perfectly observe the individual worker contribution to total output. Therefore, in our setting monitoring is not aimed at reducing information asymmetries but still affects effort and output....

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Monitoring and prudence

Beltrametti, Luca F.; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

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Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View

Berton, Fabio; Dughera, Stefano; Ricci, Andrea - 2019

In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have positive effects on labor effort, we find that the classic hold-up problem does not necessarily...

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Unions and firms' investments : a unified view

Berton, Fabio; Dughera, Stefano; Ricci, Andrea - 2019

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Does dual employment protection affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan J.; Ortigueira, Salvador; Stucchi, Rodolfo - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 4, pp. 421-459

This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms' TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms' temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower...

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Does dual employment protection affect TFP? : evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan J.; Ortigueira, Salvador; Stucchi, Rodolfo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 4, pp. 421-459

This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms’ TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower...

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Does dual employment protection affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan Jóse; Ortigueira, Salvador; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2011

temporary workers’ effort and firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates decrease when that gap increases. We test this implication by …

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Do temporary contracts affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan José; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2008

workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under plausible conditions, workers' effort depends …

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Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Dolado, Juan José; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under plausible conditions, workers' effort depends …’ effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under plausible conditions, workers’ effort depends … relevant. JEL Classification: C14, C52, D24, J24, J41 Keywords: temporary workers, workers’ effort, firms’ TFP …

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