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Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance

Kruse, Douglas - 1995

Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27...

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Creative Destruction and Subjective Wellbeing

Aghion, Philippe - 2015

In this paper we analyze the relationship between turnover-driven growth and subjective wellbeing, using cross-sectional MSA level US data. We find that the effect of creative destruction on wellbeing is (i) unambiguously positive if we control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not;...

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2008

We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...

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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986

This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...

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Capital Structure and a Firm’s Workforce

Matsa, David A. - 2018

firm's workforce on its capital structure. For instance, high leverage often makes managing labor more difficult by … undermining employees' job security and increasing the need for costly workforce reductions. But firms can also use leverage to … needs and management of their workforce when making financing decisions …

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Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction

Sandvik, Jason - 2018

Firms rarely cut compensation, so little is known about the after-effects when compensation reductions do occur. We use commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate how work effort and turnover change. In response to an 18% decline in sales commissions, corresponding to a 7% decline in...

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How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...

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Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover

Carter, Susan Payne - 2016

Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …

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Measuring Human Leadership Skills with AI Agents

Weidmann, Ben; Xu, Yixiang; Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We show that leadership skill with artificially intelligent (AI) agents predicts leadership skill with human groups. In … "AI leadership test" was strongly correlated (ρ=0.81) with their causal impact as leaders of human teams, which we … greatly simplifies the measurement of leadership and teamwork skills …

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People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards : An Empirical Analysis

Hoffman, Mitchell - 2018

How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people management skills, affect employee outcomes? Are managers rewarded for having such skills? Using personnel data from a large, high-tech firm, we show that survey-measured people management skills have a strong...

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