The engineer, employer and employee

Employee Mobility and Employer-provided Retirement Plans

This paper provides new insights into the effect of the widespread transition from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) pension plans on employee mobility. Pension plans may affect employee mobility both through an “incentive effect,” where the bundle of benefit characteristics, such as vesting rules, relative liquidity and the risk/return tradeoff affect turnover directly, and a “...

MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data

We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for workerspecific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the variation in job durations into the relative contribution of the worker and the firm. We also allow the ...

The Influence of Credibility on Employer - Employee Trust Relations

This study investigates the employee-employer relationship, focusing specifically on trust. The trust building relationship is investigated by exploring the current perspective on trust, the elements of trust and the role of a five-factor model on personality (conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, resourcefulness and extraversion) and managerial practices (credibility, group ma...

Employee demand for health insurance and employer health plan choices.

Although most private health insurance in US is employment-based, little is known about how employers choose health plans for their employees. In this paper, I examine the relationship between employee preferences for health insurance and the health plans offered by employers. I find evidence that employee characteristics affect the generosity of the health plans offered by employers and the li...

The Negligent Notary Public–Employee: Is His Employer Liable?