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Special issue “Insider Econometrics”

Authors: Bernd Frick, Oliver Fabel

Published in: Journal of Business Economics | Issue 2/2013

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While labor economics has traditionally focused on market issues rather than looking inside the “black box” of the firm, personnel economics (e.g. Lazear and Gibbs 2009) has taken up questions that were until recently primarily discussed by industrial sociologists and psychologists. Addressing standard human resource management questions, personnel economics uses standard economic and econometric tools applied to the special circumstances of managing employees within companies (e.g. Bloom and Van Reenen 2010). Given the potentially dysfunctional effects of performance pay and semi-autonomous forms of the organization of labor case studies are urgently required. There is a need to understand why competing organizations either adopt or refrain from adopting specific productivity-enhancing practices and the different impacts of that practice in organizations that adopt and do not adopt it as well as a need to understand why a particular practice is effective in raising the productivity among some while not among all (e.g. Ichniowski and Shaw 2009). …

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Title: Special issue “Insider Econometrics”
Authors: Bernd Frick
Oliver Fabel
Publication date: 01-02-2013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Journal of Business Economics / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 0044-2372
Electronic ISSN: 1861-8928
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11573-013-0653-9

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