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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) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467079
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469295
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Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act : A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950
Costa, Dora L. - 1998
I examine the impact of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards on weekly hours worked between 1938 and 1950 by comparing workers in wholesale trade, a sector which was covered by the Act, with those in retail trade, a sector which was not. I find that the Act reduced hours worked,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471957
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Immigration and the Quality of Jobs
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1997
A precondition for the absence of labor-market competition between immigrants and natives is that they differ in their willingness to accept work that offers different amenities. The implications of a model embodying this assumption are that immigrants will be observed experiencing inferior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472619
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The Impact Of New Unionization On Wages And Working Conditions : A Longitudinal Study Of Establishments Under NLRB Elections
Freeman, Richard B. - 1988
This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly organized in the 1980s using a research design in which establishments are 'paired' with their closest nonunion competitor. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a...
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Union Work Rules and Efficiency in the Building Trades
Allen, Steven G. - 1985
This paper estimates the effect of union work rules in the building trades on employment and costs by comparing factor demand elasticities for union and nonunion contractors and subcontractors over micro data from two different types of construction. The results show that the elasticities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477346
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Wages and Working Conditions
Saffer, Henry - 1984
This paper presents another extension of the approach initiated by Brown. As in Brown's work, the wage change specification is used to control for bias due to omitted ability data. Then, as in Duncan and Hoimlund's study, working conditions are measured using subjective self?reported data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477671
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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019
This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479381
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Narratives about Technology-Induced Job Degradations Then and Now
Shiller, Robert J. - 2019
Concerns that technological progress degrades job opportunities have been expressed over much of the last two centuries by both professional economists and the general public. These concerns can be seen in narratives both in scholarly publications and in the news media. Part of the expressed...
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