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Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …
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The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategy on the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from a resource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theory perspective on capital structure....
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, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … protect low skilled wages; whereas in late transition ones, firm level agreements increase medium and especially high skilled … wages. Some cross country differences emerge in the structure of the wage premium as a result of country specific features …
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Despite their theoretical value in tackling principal–agent problems at low cost to firms there is almost no empirical literature on the prevalence and correlates of performance bonds posted by corporate executives. We show that they are an important feature in today's CEO labour market in...
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CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two policy experiments: the use of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract...
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All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper is the first to examine the operation of the CEO labour market across all sectors of the Chinese economy. We do so using World Bank enterprise data...
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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
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provides no impetus for action, it was predicted that associations between company climate and productivity would be mediated … by average level of job satisfaction. In a study of 42 manufacturing companies, subsequent productivity was significantly … for separate aspects of climate. In addition, an overall analysis showed that company productivity was more strongly …
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should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in … productivity, the relationship between HRM practices and subsequent productivity was stronger for firms with a poor climate. …
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Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …
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