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The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance … - we reach one central point of agreement and one intriguing shared insight. First, performance appraisal is negatively … monitoring and performance pay may be complementary. However, consonant with the disparate results from the wider literature …

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Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...

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Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Evidence from the Orientation of Uncovered Employers

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a time when collective bargaining proper has been in...

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The Determinants of Firm Performance: Unions, Works Councils, and Employee Involvement/High Performance Work Practices

Addison, John T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links … between these two historically separate literatures. The interaction between worker representation and high performance work …-determined hierarchy for productivity performance and certainly no blue-print for the future of unions. …

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