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Effectiveness of social capital in the job search process

Koßmann, Ralf Werner - 2016

finding channel. Furthermore, this is the first study which investigates whether job changes affect wage and job satisfaction … income; yet, weak evidence can be found for higher job satisfaction and a reduction in turnover. …

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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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Does union membership pay off? Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

Torm, Nina - 2018

economies. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013 and 2015 surveys, this paper examines the union wage premium among … workers' wages are 9-22 per cent higher than those of non-union workers. The wage gain is substantially larger at the upper … end of the wage distribution. …

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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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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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Inequality and Team Performance

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2010

We investigate the effects of wealth inequality on the incentives to contribute to a public good or a team output when agents are inequity averse. We show that inequality may increase total output when it favors the more able agents. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the larger...

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Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments - Evidence from the NBA

Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010

We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current heterogeneity of teams is taken into account by intermediate results. It turns out that indeed...

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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers

Josheski, Dushko - 2014

In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers from Becker’s human capital theory and their association with the workers’ productivity. In the second part of the paper the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation...

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Personnel economics issues: What causes increasing work intensity, and what are the policy responses?

Josheski, Dushko - 2014

wage function will then be biased w=w (ē, t), wage is function of average effort and time needed to produce output. …

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