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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10043 Paul Willman
Alex Bryson
John Forth
UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action
This paper looks at the financial resources of trades unions in the UK, both updating previous work and attempting to understand the management of first and second order collective action problems. ...
(published as 'UK Unions, Collective Action and the Cost Disease' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (2), 447 - 470)
J51
10042 Alex Bryson
John Forth
What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth ...
(published as 'Management Practices and SME Performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558)
L25, M12, M50, M53
10041 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the ...
(published as: 'Business Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Performance' in: Personnel Review, 2021, 50 (2), 515-534.)
M12, M52
10039 George Wehby
Dhaval M. Dave
Robert Kaestner
Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health
The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, ...
(published in. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (2), 411 - 443)
I1, I3, J2, J3
10038 Christian Grund
Maike Rubin
Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction
We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350)
M52, J28, J31
10037 Xi Chen
Tianyu Wang
Susan Busch
Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China
We estimate the impact of pension enrollment on mental well-being using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest existing pension program. Since its launch in 2009, more than 400 million ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 411-420.)
H55, I18, I38, J14
10036 David Hummels
Jakob R. Munch
Chong Xiang
No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Effort, Injury, and Illness
Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
I1, F1, J2, F6
10035 Grace Weishi Gu
Samreen Malik
Dario Pozzoli
Vera Rocha
Trade Induced Skill Upgrading: Lessons from the Danish and Portuguese Experiences
We study how the skill distribution for an economy responds to changes in the skill premium induced by trade integration. Using administrative data for Denmark (1993- 2012) and Portugal (1993-2011), ...
(revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 241 - 259)
F16, J24
10032 Kelvin Seah
Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement
Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51C, 152-169)
I21, J15, J61
10031 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Sekou Keita
The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants
The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (11), 1822-1834)
F22, J31, J38, J61, O15
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