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An Overview of the Human Resources Activities in Central Government Institutions

CIOBANU, Alina - In: REVISTA ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC 2013 (2013) 21, pp. 58-70

public managers to come up with solutions in order to increase human resources activities efficiency. The aim of the present …

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Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...

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Are Women More Attracted to Cooperation Than Men?

Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We conduct a real-effort experiment where participants choose between individual compensation and team-based pay. In contrast to tournaments, which are often avoided by women, we find that women choose team-based pay at least as frequently as men in all our treatments and conditions, and...

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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2011

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded ? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that...

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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women...

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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...

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Testing Models of Hierarchy: Span of Control, Compensation and Career Dynamics

Smeets, Valérie; Warzynski, Frederic - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2006

. This theory explains our <p> empirical findings and provides a richer theory of careers in hierarchie … hierarchy model (Garicano, 2000; Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg, 2006). <p> We use a unique dataset providing personnel records … feature of this dataset is that relationships within the hierarchy are reported and we can therefore identify the chain of …

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The Working Life: The Labor Market for Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs

Maxwell, Nan L. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Maxwell extablishes the link between skills and low-skilled jobs and reveals the state of he labor market facing low-skilled workers.

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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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