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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - 2007

This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...

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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

Chor, Davin - 2005

respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic … countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum) …

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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk - 2003

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …

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Minimum Hours Constraints, Job Requirements and Retirement

Gustman, Alan L. - 2004

A structural retirement model estimated with data from the Health and Retirement Study is used to simulate the effects of policies firms might adopt to improve employment conditions for older workers and thereby encourage delayed retirement. Firm policies that effectively abolished minimum hours...

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The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear : Theory and Implications

Lang, Kevin - 2003

This paper examines nonsequential search when jobs vary with respect to nonpecuniary characteristics. In the presence of frictions in the labor market, the equilibrium job distribution need not show evidence of compensating wage differentials. The model also generates several pervasive features...

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Broken Down by Work and Sex : How Our Health Declines

Case, Anne C. - 2003

manual work, in health decline with age. The Grossman capital-stock model of health assumes a technology in which money and … of the health stock, but by the rate of increase of the rate of deterioration. We argue that such a technology is …

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Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions

Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - 2003

Neoclassical labor market theories imply that employers will react to binding minimum wages by changing the level of employment. A multitude of studies consider this aspect of minimum wages, yet fail to reach a consensus as to its employment effects. While the employment effects of the minimum...

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The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Brown, Drusilla K. - 2003

, and the role of such international institutions as the International Labor Organization and World Trade Organization in …

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David - 2003

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations : Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B. - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective tires....

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