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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from differentcountries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the...

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Hope, Noise, and the Efficiency of Perfect Meritocracy

Beltrametti, Luca; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

This paper explores the economic effects of imperfect meritocracy in recruitment and career advancement. We compare two career promotion mechanisms: a fully meritocratic system and a "noisy" one, that allows less productive workers to advance. Our model shows that imperfect meritocracy in...

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International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market

Peeters, Thomas; van Ours, Jan C. - 2022

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output...

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Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes

Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022

Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...

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Employers' Demand for Personality Traits

Brenčič, Vera; McGee, Andrew - 2023

We measure firms' demand for workers' personality traits expressed in job ads and find that firms primarily demand workers who are extroverted, conscientious, and open-to-experience. The personality demand measures are correlated with the soft skills required on the job and produce intuitively...

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Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023

Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions. Against this background, we examine whether there is an...

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The Micro-Foundations of Employment Systems: An Empirical Case Study of Britain and France

Amossé, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Petit, Héloïse - 2023

Building on existing studies of national employment systems, we take a multi-dimensional approach to comparative employment relations where the national level remains meaningful but which emphasises within-country dynamics and heterogeneity. Analysing nationally representative workplace surveys...

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Divergent Thinking and Post-Launch Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Non-Linearities and the Moderating Role of Experience

Caliendo, Marco; Rodriguez, Daniel - 2023

Divergent thinking is the ability to produce numerous and diverse responses to questions or tasks, and it is used as a predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business organization's innovation process and the recognition of new business opportunities. Drawing upon...

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So, Dear Applicant, Do You Mean Working from Home or Shirking from Home?

Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2023

Many applicants want a job with the possibility of telework. However, the literature is unclear on whether being … experiment in which recruiters evaluate fictitious applicants for different jobs. As a result of this experimental set-up, the … than if the motivation is productivity. Compared to applicants who do not mention a preference for telework, recruiters are …

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Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting

Brenčič, Vera; McGee, Andrew - 2023

In job ads, employers express demand for personality traits when seeking workers to perform tasks that can be completed with different behaviors (e.g., communication, problem-solving) but not when seeking workers to perform tasks involving narrowly prescribed sets of behaviors such as routine...

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