This paper combines on-the-job search and human capital theory to study the coexistence of …rm-funded general training and frequent job turnovers. Although ex ante identical, …rms di¤er in their training decisions. The model generates correlations between various …rm characteristics that are consistent with the data. Wage dispersion exists among ex ante identical workers because workers of the ...

This paper empirically investigates three hypotheses of biased officiating by National Basketball Association (NBA) referees. Using a sample of 28,388 quarter-level observations from six seasons, we find that NBA referees make calls that favor home teams, teams losing during games, and teams losing in playoff series. All of these biases are likely to be profitable to the league. We identify the...

The causes of seat change in midterm elections have been debated for decades. Some political scientists believe seat change is caused by heightened national conditions; others argue seat change is a result of conditions within districts. Political scientists agree however that candidate quality affects election outcomes. In general, the party that recruits the highest quality candidates and run...

This article, based on data from the Retirement History Study, examines coverage by an employee pension plan on the longest job and the extent to which covered workers received an employee pension upon retirement and the size of their benefits. It also examines the joint receipt of employee pension and OASDI benefits and the size of the combined benefits. Each of these pension variables is anal...

1) Improved on-time starts and reduced turnover times can increase OR and anesthesia group efficiency, but neither is a measure of (allocative or technical) efficiency.2,3 Suppose every Monday a service has mean ± SD of 7.2 ± 0.5 h of cases. The staffing (allocated time) should be 8 h. If reducing turnovers were to reduce the mean from 7.2 to 6.8 h, there would be no change in staffed hours, ov...

the study of relationship between perception of organizational justice with turnover intention, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior of medical staff of urmia imam reza hospital     hassani m [1] *, jodatkordlar l [2]     received: 5 mar, 2012 accepted: 20 may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : justice in an organization symbolizes equity and consideration of ethical b...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of co-operative union±management relations on ®rm performance and organizational outcomes such as employee turnover and absenteeism. This paper seeks to identify the factors that affect the development of a co-operative industrial relations climate and analyses the effects of that climate on organizational and union allegiance and ...

In this paper we investigate the reputational penalties to managers of firms announcing earnings restatements. More specifically, we examine management turnover and the subsequent employment of displaced managers at firms announcing earnings restatements during 1997 or 1998. In contrast to prior research (Beneish 1999; Agrawal et al. 1999), which does not find increased turnover following GAAP ...

Here, I turn to Dean Oliver’s “Four Factors of Basketball Success.”i Oliver argues that most the variation in wins can be explained by Shooting, Turnovers, Rebounding and Free Throws. He assigns the weights to each factor, 40%, 25%, 20% and 15%, respectively. In my model, I will determine the coefficients for each factor, which have the greatest predictive power. The four factors are defined in...

How does a firm’s human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two aspects of human capital: turnover and skills. First, we find that firms with higher employee turnover experience significantly ...