What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

Dieser Bericht untersucht die möglichen Beschäftiungseffekte und fiskalischenEffekte des von Peter Bofinger und Ulrich Walwei vorgeschlagenen Konzepts zurFörderung Existenz sichernder Beschäftigung. Die Arbeiten wurden in engerKoordination mit dem Auftraggeber, dem Bundesministerium der...

Mit der Hartz-Reform wurde die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland in allen Bereicheneiner grundlegenden Revision unterzogen. Nach vorbereitenden Arbeiten der Hartz-Kommission wurde eine Reihe von „Gesetzen für moderne Dienstleistungen amArbeitsmarkt“ (kurz: Hartz I-IV) verabschiedet, die...

Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance anddevelopment of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training andexplore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also showchanges over time during a 20 year...

Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...

This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of twodifferent insurance products and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groupsamong rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing ispossible in solidarity...

We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiplecountries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at olderages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage, much of the analysis is at an earlystage and limited to a...