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Waging The War For Talent: Do Recruitment And Screening Strategies Raise Employee Performance?, Jed Devaro, Gary S. Fields
Waging The War For Talent: Do Recruitment And Screening Strategies Raise Employee Performance?, Jed Devaro, Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
We use data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to provide an empirical answer to the question, “Do recruitment and screening strategies raise employee performance?” Our approach differs from previous empirical work in that we allow for changes in screening behavior to accompany changes in recruitment behavior. In the end, our results are consistent with those of the previous literature that ignores the auxiliary effect of recruitment through screening, in that we find no effect of recruitment methods on worker performance.
Income Mobility In Latin America, Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, María Laura Sánchez Puerta
Income Mobility In Latin America, Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, María Laura Sánchez Puerta
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] In the last decades Latin American countries have experienced substantial macroeconomic instability. While the region as a whole experienced economic growth during most of the 1990’s and 2000’s, there were also years of stagnation as well as economic decline.
Labor Market, Gary S. Fields
Labor Market, Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] According to textbooks such as Ronald Ehrenberg and Robert Smith’s "Modern Labor Economics" (2005), a "labor market" is the place where labor services are bought and sold. The term "labor" is equated to the term "work", not only manual work but also knowledge work. Sometimes, the place where labor services are bought and sold is a clearly identifiable one such as a construction site or a lawyer’s office. Other times, the place is ill-defined, as for the work of most readers of this article, who are hired in one location and who perform labor services in a number of …
Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation, Kaushik Basu, Gary S. Fields, Shub Debgupta
Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation, Kaushik Basu, Gary S. Fields, Shub Debgupta
Gary S Fields
No abstract provided.
Doing The Right Jobs Right: Managers’ Attributes And Activities At Borders, Gary S. Fields, Jed Devaro
Doing The Right Jobs Right: Managers’ Attributes And Activities At Borders, Gary S. Fields, Jed Devaro
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] This article starts with a simple value proposition: that companies can save large sums and gain competitive advantage by utilizing more fully their own data on the determinants of profit. In this article, we describe how we used a variety of statistical methods (correlations, simple regressions, multiple regressions, and decompositions) to help one company, Borders, gain competitive advantage by learning from itself.
Earnings Mobility In Argentina, Mexico, And Venezuela: Testing The Divergence Of Earnings And The Symmetry Of Mobility Hypotheses, Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, María Laura Sánchez Puerta
Earnings Mobility In Argentina, Mexico, And Venezuela: Testing The Divergence Of Earnings And The Symmetry Of Mobility Hypotheses, Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, María Laura Sánchez Puerta
Gary S Fields
This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those who experience the largest earnings gains or the smallest earnings losses; this is the “divergent mobility” hypothesis. We also compare periods of positive economic growth with those of negative economic growth, asking whether those groups of individuals that experience large positive earnings gains when the economy is growing are the same as those that experience large earnings losses when the economy is contracting; this …
How Much Should We Care About Changing Income Inequality In The Course Of Economic Growth?, Gary S. Fields
How Much Should We Care About Changing Income Inequality In The Course Of Economic Growth?, Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
This paper asks how much we should care about changes in Lorenz curves and standard inequality measures when economic growth takes place. I conclude that these changes are of some importance but that other aspects of inequality and poverty are more important.
Leading For The Bottom Line: A View Of Leadership In A Bottom-Line Context, Gary S. Fields , Cory Stern
Leading For The Bottom Line: A View Of Leadership In A Bottom-Line Context, Gary S. Fields , Cory Stern
Gary S Fields
This paper sets out to establish and describe a new approach to leadership called Bottom Line Leadership. The essence of Bottom Line Leadership is that a leader’s most critical responsibility is to clearly identify, communicate and gain buy-in for the ultimate bottom-line objective of the organization he/she leads, subject to constraints imposed by the market and by the organization itself. In comparison to other leadership models that focus on the general attributes or behaviors characterizing effective leaders, Bottom Line Leadership emphasizes the link between an organization’s purpose and a leader’s behavior. The philosophy that serves as the foundation for this …
Income Mobility In China: Main Questions, Existing Evidence, And Proposed Studies, Gary Fields, Shuang Zhang
Income Mobility In China: Main Questions, Existing Evidence, And Proposed Studies, Gary Fields, Shuang Zhang
Gary S Fields
The international literature presents studies of macro mobility (how much income mobility is there in the economy?) and micro mobility (which individuals experience movements of what magnitudes and what are the correlates of these movements?). In China too, both macro mobility and micro mobility studies have been conducted. This paper reviews the existing Chinese studies and proposes additional new work that can be carried out using Chinese panel data sets.
Dual Economy, Gary S. Fields
Dual Economy, Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] Dual economy models arose as a reaction against single sector models. A half-century ago, theoretical modeling of economic growth was dominated by single sector models such as that of Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow. Other analysts, though, felt that economies would better be characterized as having multiple sectors, which they stylized into dual economy models. Foremost among the early dual economy modelers were two other Nobel Prize winners, W. Arthur Lewis and Simon Kuznets. The dual economy models posited a relatively advanced sector and a relatively backward sector. These have alternatively been called capitalist and subsistence, formal and informal, …