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A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in...
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performance of the firm and the effort of workers in total. For workers who buy subsidized shares, an ESPP sets up a group … of workers' compensation depend on company performance. Using data from the UK establishments of a multinational firm … the plan, but are no more involved in co-monitoring the performance of fellow employees than non-Plan members. We also …
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receive it. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been pre-occupied with individual performance-related pay …, we here demonstrate a robust positive link between the receipt of a range of group performance schemes (profit shares …
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employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …
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Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
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Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...
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Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...
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We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …
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role of female managers in closing the GWG is more pronounced when employees are paid for performance, consistent with the … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …
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