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Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation 不愿意训练?对哥伦比亚学徒制度的坚定回应
Pub Date : 2021-10-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3707938
S. Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa, Arthur Seibold
We study firm responses to a large‐scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to train, setting apprentice quotas that vary discontinuously in firm size. We document strong heterogeneity in responses across sectors, where firms in sectors with high skill requirements tend to avoid training apprentices, while firms in low‐skill sectors seek apprentices. Guided by these reduced‐form findings, we structurally estimate firms' training costs. Especially in high‐skill sectors, many firms face large training costs, limiting their willingness to train apprentices. Yet, we find substantial overall benefits of expanding apprenticeship training, in particular when the supply of trained workers increases in general equilibrium. Finally, we show that counterfactual policies taking into account heterogeneity across sectors can deliver similar benefits from training while inducing less distortions in the firm‐size distribution and in the allocation of resources across sectors.
我们研究了企业对哥伦比亚学徒制度大规模变化的反应。改革要求企业进行培训,并根据企业规模的不同设定学徒配额。我们发现各行业的反应存在很强的异质性,高技能行业的企业倾向于避免培训学徒,而低技能行业的企业则寻求学徒。根据这些简化形式的发现,我们从结构上估计了企业的培训成本。特别是在高技能行业,许多公司面临着巨大的培训成本,限制了他们培训学徒的意愿。然而,我们发现扩大学徒培训的总体效益是可观的,特别是当受过培训的工人的供给在一般均衡中增加时。最后,我们表明,考虑到跨部门异质性的反事实政策可以从培训中获得类似的收益,同时减少企业规模分布和跨部门资源配置的扭曲。
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引用次数: 9
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit 薪资历史与雇主需求:来自双面审计的证据
Pub Date : 2021-09-23 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3929578
Amanda Y. Agan, Bo Cowgill, Laura K. Gee
We study how salary history disclosures affect employer demand, and how salary history bans shape hiring and wages. We show how these effects depend on the properties of the labor market and measure the key properties using a novel, two-sided field experiment. Our field experiment features hundreds of recruiters and over two thousand job applications. We randomize the presence of salary history questions as well as job candidates' disclosures. We find that employers make negative inferences about non-disclosing candidates, and anticipate positive selection into disclosure. Recruiters view salary history as a stronger signal about competing options than about worker quality. Disclosures by men (and other highly-paid candidates) yield higher salary offers, however they are negative signals of value (net of salary), and thus yield fewer callbacks. While disclosures (especially high amounts) generally increase recruiter beliefs about quality and competing offers, male wage premiums are regarded as a weaker signal of quality than other sources (such as the premiums from working at higher paying firms, or being well-paid compared to peers). Recruiters correctly anticipate that women are less likely to disclose salary history at any level, and thus punish women less than men for silence. When we simulate the effect of salary history bans using our results, we find muted effects on callbacks. Gender inequality in salary offers is reduced; however equality comes at the expense of lower salary offers overall (and especially for men).
我们研究薪资历史披露如何影响雇主需求,以及薪资历史禁令如何影响招聘和薪资。我们展示了这些影响如何取决于劳动力市场的特性,并使用一种新颖的双边现场实验来衡量关键特性。我们的实地实验包括数百名招聘人员和2000多份工作申请。我们随机选择了薪资历史问题以及求职者的信息披露情况。我们发现雇主对未披露的候选人做出负面推断,并预期积极选择披露。招聘人员认为,薪资历史更能反映员工的竞争力,而不是员工的素质。男性(和其他高薪候选人)的信息披露会带来更高的薪水,但它们是价值(扣除薪水)的负面信号,因此回调的机会更少。虽然信息披露(尤其是大量披露)通常会增加招聘人员对质量和竞争机会的信心,但男性工资溢价被视为比其他来源(如在高薪公司工作的溢价,或与同行相比的高薪)更弱的质量信号。招聘人员正确地预测到,女性不太可能透露任何级别的薪资历史,因此对女性的惩罚要比男性少。当我们使用我们的结果模拟工资历史禁令的影响时,我们发现回调的影响不大。薪资方面的性别不平等现象有所减少;然而,性别平等是以总体上较低的工资为代价的(尤其是男性)。
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引用次数: 6
Job Satisfaction of Health Assistants in Selected Upazila Health Complexes of Bangladesh 孟加拉国选定的Upazila保健中心保健助理的工作满意度
Pub Date : 2021-09-10 DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/rcx4d
Sunanda Bosu, M. Haque, Shomrita Barua, Kazi Md. Israfil, Aninda Sen, Md. Mahmud Al Hasan
Health assistants play an important role in providing primary health care among the rural population in Bangladesh. Their improper working performance can hamper the entire nations’ health care. Proper productivity is related to the job satisfaction and job satisfaction is the result of attitude and behavior. The purpose of this study was to assess the job satisfaction level among health assistants working in selected Upazila Health Complex (UHC). 203 health assistants were interviewed through purposive sampling technique from four UHCs in the Dhaka district. Out of 203 respondents, 114 were female and 89 were male where Mean± SD was 38.80 ±7.62. The highest 109 (53.7%) participants had 1-10 years of working experience and 104 (51.2%) respondents had monthly income between 18000 -23000 BDTK. The percentage of neutral, satisfied and unsatisfied participants’ was 65%, 28% and 7%, respectively. There was significant (P < 0.05) relationship between job satisfaction and getting medical allowance, training opportunity and salary. Job nature such as security, meaningless, pride and enjoying, support colleagues such as supervisor and coworkers, acceptance by both the community and oneself were identified as the satisfied items where low and fair opportunities for promotion, low increment, and low pay, no praise, high work pressure, and null administrative capacity were found as dissatisfied factors of job. On the basis of these findings, policy makers and concerned authorities could take necessary steps for increasing the level of job satisfaction of health assistants.
保健助理在向孟加拉国农村人口提供初级保健方面发挥着重要作用。他们的不当工作表现会阻碍整个国家的医疗保健。适当的生产力与工作满意度有关,工作满意度是态度和行为的结果。本研究的目的是评估在选定的乌巴济拉卫生中心(UHC)工作的卫生助理的工作满意度。通过有目的抽样技术对来自达卡地区四家保健中心的203名保健助理进行了访谈。203名被调查者中,女性114人,男性89人,平均±SD为38.80±7.62。最高的109名(53.7%)受访者拥有1-10年的工作经验,104名(51.2%)受访者的月收入在18000 -23000 BDTK之间。中性、满意和不满意的参与者比例分别为65%、28%和7%。工作满意度与医疗补助、培训机会、工资有显著相关(P < 0.05)。工作性质如安全、无意义、骄傲和享受、支持同事如主管和同事、社区和自己的接受是满意的因素,而工作不满意的因素是晋升机会低和公平、低加薪、低工资、没有表扬、工作压力大、没有管理能力。根据这些调查结果,决策者和有关当局可以采取必要步骤,提高保健助理的工作满意度。
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引用次数: 0
Johan Cruyff and his Contribution to Success and Stadium Attendance at Feyenoord 约翰克鲁伊夫和他对费耶诺德的成功和球场上座率的贡献
Pub Date : 2021-08-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3905947
J. van Ours
In his last season as professional football player, Johan Cruyff played at Feyenoord. This paper shows that Cruyff improved the performance of his team and provides evidence of his presence attracting more stadium attendants to the home ground. From this it is concluded that Cruyff made a superstar contribution to his club Feyenoord.
在他作为职业球员的最后一个赛季,克鲁伊夫效力于费耶诺德。本文表明克鲁伊夫提高了他的球队的表现,并提供了证据,他的存在吸引了更多的体育场观众到主场。由此可以得出结论,克鲁伊夫为他的俱乐部费耶诺德做出了超级巨星的贡献。
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引用次数: 0
Employee Sexual Harassment Reviews and Firm Value 员工性骚扰审查与公司价值
Pub Date : 2021-07-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3437444
Shiu-Yik Au, Ming Dong, A. Tremblay
Firms with workplace sexual harassment risk are reluctant to disclose such information. However, rank-and-file employees may reveal harassment information via anonymous job reviews. We investigate whether a measure of sexual harassment (SH score) constructed by performing textual analysis of online job reviews contains value-relevant information that affects firm performance. We find that SH reveals significant future problems for firms in terms of profitability, labor costs, and stock performance. In our sample firms during 2011-2017, high SH scores are associated with sharp declines in operating profitability and increases in labor costs. Firms in the top quantiles (top 1% to 5%) of the SH score earned lower risk-adjusted stock returns, representing an annual shareholder value loss of $0.8 to $1.4 billion per harassment-prone firm. These results indicate that sexual harassment has a highly detrimental effect on firm value, and employee voluntary reporting can be a valid disclosure mechanism when firms are disincentivized to reveal bad news. This research highlights the value-relevance of information held by rank-and-file employees, including information about possible corporate misconduct.
存在工作场所性骚扰风险的公司不愿披露此类信息。然而,普通员工可能会通过匿名的工作回顾披露骚扰信息。我们研究通过对在线工作评论进行文本分析构建的性骚扰度量(SH分数)是否包含影响公司绩效的价值相关信息。我们发现,在盈利能力、劳动力成本和股票绩效方面,SH揭示了企业未来面临的重大问题。在我们的样本公司中,2011-2017年,高SH分数与经营盈利能力的急剧下降和劳动力成本的增加有关。SH得分最高的公司(前1%至5%)的风险调整股票回报率较低,每家容易受到骚扰的公司每年的股东价值损失为8亿至14亿美元。这些结果表明,性骚扰对企业价值具有高度的不利影响,当企业缺乏披露坏消息的动力时,员工自愿报告可以成为一种有效的披露机制。这项研究强调了普通员工所持有的信息的价值相关性,包括有关公司可能存在的不当行为的信息。
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引用次数: 2
Do managers distinguish between effects of luck and effort on employees' performance outcomes? Evidence from a high-stakes field setting 管理者是否区分运气和努力对员工绩效结果的影响?证据来自高风险的野外环境
Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3894211
Patrick J. Ferguson
To investigate whether managers' subjective performance evaluations and personnel decisions distinguish between effects of luck and effort on employees' performance outcomes, I use a regression discontinuity design that compares the performance ratings and contracting outcomes of professional football players involved in narrow victories (‘lucky’ outcomes) with those of players involved in narrow defeats (‘unlucky’ outcomes). Although the informativeness principle shows that supervisors' evaluations should filter out the effect of luck on subordinates' outcomes, theory in psychology suggests that random variation in outcomes may nonetheless affect evaluators' judgments. In line with this theory, I show that unlucky losses cause coaches to lower their subjective player performance ratings and, in turn, drop more players from the team's starting line-up. To shed light on the mechanisms that give rise to these results, I present evidence that suggests that these effects are driven by managers explicitly conflating luck and effort, and by managers' use of outcome-based search heuristics. Overall, my findings extend research on the degree to which firms' use of subjectivity in evaluating and rewarding employees can effectively reduce incentive problems in practice.
为了调查管理者的主观绩效评估和人事决策是否区分运气和努力对员工绩效结果的影响,我使用了一个回归不连续设计,比较了职业足球运动员在狭隘胜利(“幸运”结果)和狭隘失败(“不幸”结果)时的绩效评级和合同结果。尽管信息性原则表明,主管的评估应该过滤掉运气对下属结果的影响,但心理学理论表明,结果的随机变化仍可能影响评估者的判断。根据这一理论,我证明了不幸的失利会导致教练降低他们对球员表现的主观评价,进而将更多的球员从球队的首发阵容中除名。为了阐明产生这些结果的机制,我提供的证据表明,这些影响是由管理者明确地将运气和努力混为一谈,以及管理者使用基于结果的搜索启发式驱动的。总的来说,我的发现扩展了对企业在评估和奖励员工时使用主观性可以有效减少实践中激励问题的程度的研究。
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引用次数: 0
Sporting Contests with Network Effects 具有网络效应的体育竞赛
Pub Date : 2021-07-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3889342
Arne Aarnink, Andreas Goetsch
A sporting contest organizer needs to consider the network effect exerted by the present spectators that affects the decision of the athletes decision to participate in the contest. Talented athletes can boost their popularity by winning the contest; this can result in increased attendance at the contest, which can enhance the organizer’s profit. However, external funding by public authorities or sponsors is necessary to ensure a break.
体育竞赛组织者需要考虑在场观众对运动员参赛决策产生的网络效应。有才华的运动员可以通过赢得比赛来提高他们的知名度;这可以增加参加比赛的人数,从而提高组织者的利润。然而,公共当局或赞助商的外部资金是确保中断的必要条件。
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引用次数: 0
The Cooperative Consequences of Contests 竞赛的合作后果
Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3850570
J. Lien, Jie Zheng, Yilin Zhuo
Although contests are recognized theoretically as a highly effective method of motivation, the competitive nature of contests may generate unintended negative effects on social interactions in more general settings beyond contests. Using a laboratory experiment of real effort tasks with treatments varying by compensation schemes (all-pay auction contest, Tullock contest, proportional prize contest, and piece rate payment scheme), we test the relative effect of contest formats on pro-social behavior as measured by choices in social dilemma games. Compared to a ranking of compensation schemes based on the correspondence between effort exerted and reward received, our results provide relatively stronger support for the idea that cooperative behavior after a competition is tied to the potential for obtaining ‘fair’ payoff outcomes within the contest. Our random re-matching experimental design ensures that our findings do not result from subjects’ rivalry towards specific competitors, but rather represents a more fundamental shift in prosocial attitude. The results have managerial consequences for structuring incentives in the workplace when a combination of competition and cooperation is necessary among workers.
虽然竞赛在理论上被认为是一种非常有效的激励方法,但竞赛的竞争性可能会在竞赛之外的更一般的环境中对社会互动产生意想不到的负面影响。通过对真实努力任务的实验室实验,通过补偿方案(全付拍卖竞赛、图洛克竞赛、比例奖竞赛和计件工资方案)的不同处理,我们通过社会困境博弈中的选择来测试竞赛形式对亲社会行为的相对影响。与基于付出的努力和获得的回报之间的对应关系的薪酬方案排名相比,我们的研究结果为竞争后的合作行为与在竞争中获得“公平”回报结果的潜力联系在一起的观点提供了相对更有力的支持。我们的随机再匹配实验设计确保了我们的发现不是来自于受试者对特定竞争者的竞争,而是代表了亲社会态度的更根本的转变。当工人之间需要竞争与合作的结合时,研究结果对工作场所的激励机制产生了管理影响。
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引用次数: 0
Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals 在家工作与生产力:来自IT专业人员的人事和分析数据的证据
Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3841457
Michael J. Gibbs, F. Mengel, Christoph Siemroth
We study productivity before and during the working from home [WFH] period of the COVID-19 pandemic, using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company. Hours worked increased, including a rise of 18% outside normal business hours. Average output declined slightly, thus productivity fell 8-19%. We then analyze determinants of changes in productivity. Employees with children at home increased work hours more and had a larger decline in productivity than those without children. Women had a larger decline in productivity, while those with longer company tenure fared better. An important source of changes in WFH productivity is higher communication and coordination costs. Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, while uninterrupted work hours shrank considerably. Employees communicated with fewer individuals and business units, both inside and outside the firm. They also received less coaching and 1:1 meetings with supervisors. The findings suggest key issues for firms to address in implementing WFH policies.
我们使用一家大型亚洲IT服务公司的10,000多名熟练专业人员的人员和分析数据,研究了COVID-19大流行之前和期间的在家工作(WFH)生产率。工作时间增加,包括正常营业时间以外的工作时间增加18%。平均产量略有下降,因此生产率下降了8-19%。然后,我们分析了生产率变化的决定因素。家里有孩子的员工比没有孩子的员工工作时间更长,生产率下降幅度更大。女性的生产率下降幅度更大,而在公司任职时间较长的女性表现更好。WFH生产率变化的一个重要来源是更高的沟通和协调成本。花在协调活动和会议上的时间增加了,而不间断的工作时间大大减少了。员工与公司内外的个人和业务单位的交流减少了。他们接受的指导和与主管一对一的会议也更少。研究结果提出了企业在实施WFH政策时需要解决的关键问题。
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引用次数: 90
Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments 《以后付款:储蓄约束和延期付款需求》
Pub Date : 2021-03-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3822087
Lasse Brune, Eric T. Chyn, J. Kerwin
We study a simple savings scheme that allows workers to defer receipt of part of their wages for three months at zero interest. The scheme significantly increases savings during the deferral period, leading to higher post-disbursement spending on lumpy goods. Two years later, after two additional rounds of the savings scheme, we find that treated workers have made permanent improvements to their homes. The popularity of the scheme implies a lack of good alternative savings options. The results of a follow-up experiment suggest that demand for the scheme is partly due to its ability to address self-control issues.
我们研究了一个简单的储蓄计划,该计划允许工人以零利率将部分工资推迟三个月。该计划大大增加了延期期间的节余,导致支付后大宗商品支出增加。两年后,在又进行了两轮储蓄计划之后,我们发现,接受治疗的工人的住房得到了永久性的改善。该计划的流行意味着缺乏其他好的储蓄选择。后续实验的结果表明,该方案的需求部分是由于其解决自我控制问题的能力。
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引用次数: 16
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