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employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance …
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This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...
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performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days …
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hypothesis that financial and productivity performance is superior in establishments without worker representation is not … favorable regime for financial performance, although this does not carry over to the labor productivity outcome. On net, however …, the evidence suggests that the selected management practices are likely to be favorable to performance in plants with and …
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. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how … irrespective of the worker's ability, but when they are paid performance bonuses, they target their effort towards high ability … performance of connected workers, we find that favoring connected workers is detrimental for the firm's overall performance …
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-enhancing and rent-sharing functions of works councils. -- codetermination ; firm performance ; industrial relations ; works …
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We provide a reason for the wider economics profession to take social preferences, a concern for the outcomes achieved by other reference agents, seriously. Although we show that student measures of social preference elicited in an experiment have little external validity when compared to...
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Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...
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