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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"layoff"”.
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Layoff Characteristics and Layoff Agents' Cognitions: An Experimental Study
… have focused upon the responses and behaviors of layoff victims, survivors, and managers as a result of downsizing. Relatively few studies however, have investigated the impacts of layoff characteristics on the cognitions of the managers who plan and implement organizational downsizing. It has …
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Municipal layoffs in Southern California: Should seniority outweigh productivity?
… providing background and basic knowledge on layoff-related issues, and analysis of data obtained through a survey of human resources professionals in 30 mid-size Southern California cities. The survey provided information on the layoff experiences of respondents' cities and the current state …
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CEO Equity-Based Incentives And Managerial Opportunism Behavior
… between CEO equity compensation and employee layoffs. In particular, this study seeks to examine CEO stock-based incentives and managerial opportunism behavior for the sample of CEOs of firms announcing layoffs during 1997-2006. I investigate two issues. First, I measure the extent of CEO …
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The Impact of Downsizing on Survivors' Career Development: A Test of Super's Theory
… The sample consisted of 162 participants, 72 layoff survivors (those who remained in an organization after its downsizing) and 92 non-survivors (employees in organizations who have not downsized within 12 months). Significant results were found that differentiated the career related …
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Essays on Sales Force Career Incentives
… why and how firms use a type of promotion and layoff policy, called the Forced Ranking policy, to provide optimal long term career incentives to sales people. Findings from the essay suggests that when sales people are ambiguity averse and there is economic uncertainty regarding promotions and …
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Essays on the political economy of labor market regulation
… gain most since they face the highest risk of layoff. The shift of the productivity distribution toward lower values then becomes a shift toward supporters of employment protection. The second chapter puts forward a simple Ricardian argument suggesting that trade integration can sustain …
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THE EFFECTS OF WORK ROLE TRANSITION ON SURVIVOR RESPONSES TO LAYOFFS
This study explored the layoff experience of ten survivors of downsizing who as a result of corporate restructuring transitioned into different jobs, examining how the participants responded to the role transition and the effect it had on their downsizing experience. In addition, the research …
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Essays on Technology and Work
… We analyze establishment closures and mass layoffs between 1995–2010 and document heterogeneous responses to the shock. Extraversion is the strongest predictor of adaptation: the negative effect of a mass layoff on earnings is 20% smaller for those with one standard deviation higher scores …
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Employment Effects of Corporate Takeovers
… demand is larger after acquisitions that involve layoffs than after acquisitions that do not. This greater decrease in labour demand in layoff-involving acquisitions may justify workforce reductions post-merger. The general conclusion of the thesis is that mergers do not always negatively affect …
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Intervention trial for workers with depressive symptoms
… problem exists for depressed workers facing layoff and possible loss of health insurance. A structured 10-week intervention combining low-cost, self-directed therapies (specified doses of exercise and bright light exposure, and vitamin/omega-3 supplement) to improve mood and functioning in …
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Homeownership And Unemployment: Outcomes And Implications
… I find that while job losers and temporary layoff homeowners search for jobs more intensively than renters, homeowners who are re-entrant and job leavers search for jobs less intensively than renters.
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Adult Re-Entry Students: Experiences Preceding Entry into a Rural Appalachian Community College.
… because of job-related concerns (typically a layoff or company's closing) or an issue of timing (a feeling that it was "time" to return). Re-entry students faced barriers that were both institutional and personal as they navigated the educational process. Participants reported that financial, …
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Essays on Education Policy
… and eighth-grade test scores, using federal Mass Layoff Statistics and 1996-2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress data. Results indicate that job losses decrease scores. Effects are larger for eighth than fourth graders and for math than reading assessments, and are robust to …
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Inequality in Labour Markets
… that firms in close proximity to a large mass layoff in turn reduce their own employment and that these negative spillovers are highly localised. The strength of the negative spillovers approximately halves for every kilometre further away from the event. The spillovers are also very …
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Essays on social networks and information worker productivity by Lynn Wu.
… 1: "Social Network Effects on Performance and Layoffs: Evidence from the Adoption of a Social Networking Tool." By studying the changes in employees' networks and performance before and after the introduction of a social networking tool, I find that a structurally diverse network (low in …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Employment, Benefit Takeup and Other Labor Market Outcomes
… of unemployment insurance benefits on temporary layoffs waiting to be recalled. Earlier work has used endogenous UI measures derived from individual data on benefits and wages. The main contribution of this paper is to use instrumental variables of UI benefits and taxes at industry-year-state …
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The interrelationships among job insecurity, locus of control, sense of coherence and organisational commitment of survivors of downsizing
Downsizing is one of the most common organisational reactions to organisational change. The effects of global competition, mergers, and the privatisation of public sector companies, among others, are forcing organisations in South Africa to resort to workforce reduction. The purpose of the present …
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Survivor reactions to organizational downsizing: The influence of justice perceptions and the psychological contract.
The present study examined the relationships of organizational justice and the psychological contract with four outcome variables in a downsizing context. Multinational data were gathered from survivors representing a variety of organizations and industries. The main focus of the current study …
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