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Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

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Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes

Grund, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since it is not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empirical examination offers a new approach based on representative German data. Employees who quit their job and...

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Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....

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Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....

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Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In a dynamic labor market worker-firm matches dissolve frequently causing workers to separate and firms to look for replacements. A separation may be initiated by the worker (a quit) or the firm (a layoff), or may result from a joint decision. A dissolution of a worker-firm match may be...

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Downward Wage Rigidity and Labour Mobility

Cornelißen, Thomas; Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) effects of being individually affected by downward wage rigidity on layoffs, quits and intra-firm mobility are investigated. We measure the individual extent of wage rigidity within a structural empirical model that allows us to estimate...

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Leontaridi, Rannia M.; Ward, Melanie E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The paper uses data from the International Social Surveys Program (ISSP) to investigate work-related stress among a group of 15 OECD countries. It examines the determinants of work-related stress and explores the importance of work-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour...

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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...

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