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Firms' Wage Structures, Workers' Fairness Perceptions, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeifer, Christian - 2019

and turnover intentions, and (3) the contribution of the fairness considerations on the overall effects of the wage … for all workers in the surveyed establishments. From these data, four variables are generated that describe a firm's wage … wages within firms, (c) the conditional wage dispersion in firms, and (d) workers' conditional external reference wages …

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Work Schedules

DeVaro, Jed - 2024

In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises;...

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Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?

Jirjahn, Uwe; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2024

Working from home reduces real-time visibility of employees within the physical space of the workplace. This makes it difficult to monitor employees' work behavior. Employers may instead monitor employees' outputs and provide incentives through performance pay. The crucial question is what type...

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Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual-Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence than Collective Ones?

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2023

While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...

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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation

Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms? hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal of this paper is to fill in this gap and in particular to assess whether the provision of...

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The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Handwerker, Elizabeth; Spletzer, James R. - 2015

occupational concentration to wage inequality between establishments and its growth over time. We show that occupational … concentration plays an important role in wage determination for workers, in a wide variety of occupations, and can explain some … establishment-level wage variation. Occupational concentration is increasing during the 2000-2011 time period, although much of this …

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The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure

Heywood, John S.; O'Mahony, Mary; Siebert, W. Stanley; … - 2018

positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively …

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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation

Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms’ hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal of this paper is to fill in this gap and in particular to assess whether the provision of...

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The Relative Importance of the Establishment in the Determination of Job Quality

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Green, Francis - 2025

Using linked employer-employee data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey we examine how much of the variation in job quality is accounted for by establishment-level variation, and the relative importance of the establishment compared with occupation and employee...

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Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we … compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with … an identity distinct from those with whom they will interact, and priming subjects with no particular identity. We find …

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