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High-performance management practices and employee outcomes in Denmark

Cristini, Annalisa; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012

High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive effects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After assessing the correlation between organizational innovation and firm performance, this article investigates whether high-involvement work...

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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? Evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination

Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012

Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers (road...

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Comparing Apples with Oranges : Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective

Plasman, Robert; Sissoko, Salimata - 2004

sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we …

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Wages and the bargaining regime under multi-level bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Rycx, François - 2006

by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that, compared to multi …-employer bargaining, single-employer bargaining has a positive effect both on wage levels and on wage dispersion in Belgium and in Denmark … in Belgium and Denmark, single-employer bargaining is used to adapt pay to the specific needs of the firm while, in Spain …

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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...

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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003

Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...

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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories

Lake, Henrietta - 2007

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

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The Times They are A-Changin'

Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period … 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process … Sweden and Denmark experienced similar declines in employment prospects between 1985 and 1995 despite quite different …

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New workplace practices and the gender wage gap: can the new economy be the great equalizer?

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Eriksson, Tor - 2006

We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private sector firms merged to a large matched employer-employee database. Self-managed teams, project...

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Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer- Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2001

A growing literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage...

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