Employment policies, hiring practices and firm performance

Hiring Practices, Employment Protection and Temporary Jobs

This paper examines the effects of a two-tier reform of the Employment Protection Legislation that increases flexibility at the margin by allowing firms to hire workers on temporary positions and investigates under which conditions temporary jobs are stepping stones to permanent employment. The analysis has far focused on the role of temporary jobs in employers adjustment to economic shocks and...

Environmental Policies and Firm-level Management Practices in Japan

Offshoring, Firm Performance and Employment – Evidence from German Establishment Data

This paper seeks to isolate empirically the productivity effect of offshoring on establishment employment (e.g. Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg, 2008) from a direct employment effect via downsizing. The analysis is pursued for a representative sample of German establishments from 1998 to 2004, using a difference-in-differences matching approach. First, we find a positive employment effect from a qu...

The impact of interwoven integration practices on supply chain value addition and firm performance

Drawing on the supply chain (SC) management literature, this article conceptualizes and empirically tests a framework that shows how both external and internal integration practices are significant and positively associated with SC value addition and firm performance. The framework also tests the impact of value addition as a reinforcing factor on firm performance. The outcome of this investiga...

The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance∗

Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of 4,792 firms, typically over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions of personnel management within each firm: the size of worker turnover, the role of job levels and h...