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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However …

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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more profitable to some firms to enter the formal sector,...

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Minimum wages and employment

Keil, Manfred; Robertson, Donald; Symons, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper investigates the effect of minimum wages on employment using a panel of US state-based data. We estimate a minimalist dynamic version of the specification implied by neo-classical theory. We find statistically and economically significant effects of minimum wages on youth employment....

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The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals

Bloom, Nick; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

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Work-life balance in a low income neighbourhood

Dean, Hartley; Couldry, Alice - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

in order to obtain ‘family-friendly’ working conditions. Employment rights are poorly understood. Standards of management …

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Search frictions, real rigidities and inflation dynamics

Thomas, Carlos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The standard New Keynesian model suffers from the so-called .macro-micro pricing conflict: in order to match the dynamics of inflation implied by macroeconomic data, the model needs to assume an average duration of price contracts which is much longer than what is observed in micro data. Here I...

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Search and matching frictions and optimal monetary policy

Thomas, Carlos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

I analyze optimal monetary policy in an economy with search and matching frictions in the labor market and staggered nominal wage and price contracts. In this framework, as opposed to the standard New Keynesian model, preset nominal wages need not have any effect on existing employment...

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The value of bosses

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper...

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Making do with less: working harder during recessions

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second is that each incumbent worker produced more. The second effect is termed “making do with less.” Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large...

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HRM practices and knowledge processes outcomes: empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment on UK SMEs in the tourism hospitality and leisure sector

Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

describes the strategic logic between human resource management and firm performance. …

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