Search Results - subject:"employment arrangements"

Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility; Evidence From Brazil

Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the institutional changes introduced by the 1988...

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Do the flexible employment arrangements increase job satisfaction and employee loyalty? : evidence from Bayesian networks and instrumental variables

Giovanis, Eleftherios - In: International journal of computational economics and … 9 (2019) 1/2, pp. 84-115

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Superbugs versus outsourced cleaners : employment arrangements and the spread of health care-associated infections

Litwin, Adam Seth; Avgar, Ariel C.; Becker, Edmund R. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 70 (2017) 3, pp. 610-641

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Kingdom of Netherlands; Netherlands: Selected Issues and Analytical Notes

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

Important issues of the Netherlands are discussed. Openness to trade has benefited the Netherlands before the crisis and has supported the recent recovery process. However, both financial openness and trade linkages have also been a transmission channel for the financial crisis. Synchronized...

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Employment arrangements diversity and work group performance

Akron, Sagi; Feinblit, Ofek; Hareli, Shlomo; Tzafrir, … - In: Team Performance Management 22 (2016) 5/6, pp. 310-330

contracted under four significantly different employment arrangements and are mixed together in heterogeneous work groups, but … type of employment arrangements as the basis for calculating diversity as separation. Using mean Euclidean distance as … suggested by Harrison and Klein (2007), the authors arbitrarily set the distance between two different employment arrangements …

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The Italian Labor Market; Recent Trends, Institutions, and Reform Options

Schindler, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional landscape and labor market trends from a cross-country...

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Greece; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the growth prospects of the Greek economy. It is estimated that exceptional factors boosted growth by 1 percentage point per year in recent years and, under current trends and policies, growth is likely to drop to about 3 percent by the end of the decade. The...

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Technological diffusion, the diffusion of skill and the growth of outsourcing in US manufacturing

Magnani, Elisabetta - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 15 (2006) 7, pp. 617-647

What drives the observed rapid growth of outsourcing in US manufacturing? This article approaches this question by asking whether technological diffusion driven by R&D spillovers is in part responsible for the growth of atypical work arrangements in the USA. Relying on data of technological...

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The Productivity Slowdown, Sectoral Reallocations and the Growth of Atypical Employment Arrangements

Magnani, E. - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 20 (2003) 2, pp. 121-142

This paper explores the recent shifts in employment arrangements away from long-term employment contracts and internal …

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