Layoffs and Worker Effort Theory and Evidence from the North American Automotive Supplier Industry

In this paper, we examine the effect of layoffs and layoff policies on three measures of worker effort. More specifically, we use data on first-tier automotive suppliers in the U.S. and Canada to test the proposition that greater employment security interacts with other human resources policies to i...

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Main Authors: Parkin, Richard J., Helper, Susan R.
Language:en_US
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1639