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Offshoring, Automation, Low-Skilled Immigration, and Labor Market Polarization

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022
We show that the observed polarization of employment toward the high- and low-skill occupations disappears when only native workers are considered. Instead, low-skilled immigration explains employment growth at the low tail of the skill distribution ...
Federico S. Mandelman, A. Zlate
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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles

Social Science Research Network, 2023
We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced.
Achyuta R. Adhvaryu, V. Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, Nicolas Torres   +4 more
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Influence and Information in Team Decisions: Evidence from Medical Residency

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021
I study team decisions among physician trainees. Exploiting a discontinuity in team roles across trainee tenure, I find evidence that teams alter decision-making, concentrating influence in the hands of senior trainees.
David C. Chan
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Knowledge Management Strategies Combinations: A Typology Based on the Case of Audit and Consulting Firms

, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to develop a model of corporate knowledge management practices in the audit and consulting sector. A new analysis grid is proposed for KM strategies, distinguishing between the nature of the knowledge (declarative or ...
Corinne Janicot, S. Mignon, Anne Gratacap   +2 more
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Strengthening long-term job performance: The moderating roles of sense of responsibility and leader’s support

Australian Journal of Management, 2020
Drawing upon human capital theory and attachment theory, this study develops a research model that examines how on-the-job training (OJT) effectiveness and work engagement play key mediating roles in the development of job performance.
Chieh-Peng Lin, Meng-Keng Tsai
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Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

The American Economic Review
This paper studies, through a randomized field experiment involving community health workers in Pakistan, if public sector organizations can improve worker performance by investing in their mission motivation.
Muhammad Yasir Khan
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The fourth industrial revolution and labour market regulation in Singapore

Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2020
The race to develop and implement autonomous systems and artificial intelligence has challenged the responsiveness of governments in many areas and none more so than in the domain of labour market policy.
P. Waring, A. Bali, Christopher Vas
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LogistiQuest as a Tool for Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in Logistics Management

Global Conference on Business and Social Sciences Proceeding
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has been recognized as an effective pedagogical approach that enhances students' critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Abdul Khabir Rahmat, Muhammad Firdaus Abdul Rashid, Adi Aizat Yajid   +2 more
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Can Financial Incentives to Firms Improve Apprenticeship Training? Experimental Evidence from Ghana

American Economic Review: Insights
We use a field experiment to test whether financial incentives can improve the quality of apprenticeship training. Trainers (firm owners) in the treatment group participated in a tournament incentive scheme where they received a payment based on their ...
Gabriel Brown, Morgan Hardy, I. Mbiti, J. Mccasland, Isabelle Salcher   +4 more
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Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success

Social Science Research Network
A randomized experiment in Togo found that personal initiative training for small businesses resulted in large and significant impacts for both men and women after two years.
Francisco Campos, Michael Frese, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie, Mona Mensmann   +5 more
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