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Work arrangements on large capital city building projects

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The study examines the relationship between work arrangements and workplace performance on large capital building sites.

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Predicting job performance: A comparison of expert opinion and research findings*

Dakin, Stephen; Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004

A survey was conducted of New Zealand personnel consultants. Their beliefs about the validity of various selection tools and their claimed usage of these tools was then compared with the validities in a previously published meta-analysis. The experts claimed to use the predictors they believed...

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Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004

We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled …

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Work Arrangements in the Australian Meat Processing Industry

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...

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Work arrangements in container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

This study examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of container stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to achieving improved work arrangements are analysed. This is...

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The wage effects from the use of personal contacts as hiring channels

Antoninis, Manos - EconWPA - 2004

It has been argued that the use of personal networks in the hiring process has a positive influence on the wages of …

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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in …

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Ideologies, Beliefs, and Economic Advice - A Cognitive- Evolutionary View on Economic Policy-Making

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 2000

Economists often perceive the “ideological beliefs“ held by political actors as obstacles to rational policy-making. In contrast, it is argued that ideologies have characteristics that appear desirable in policy- making in that they allow political actors to credibly commit themselves to...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of "Japanese" versus "American" organizational structures...

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Neural correlates of the affect heuristic during brand choice

Plassmann, Hilke; Kenning, Peter; Deppe, Michael; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this working paper it is investigated how affect and cognition interact in consumer decision making. The research … brand choice immediately when the decision is computed in the test person’s brain. In a neuroscientific experiment test … persons perform binary decision-making tasks between different brands of the same product class. The results suggest that the …

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