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Evolution of employment protection legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic states, 1985 - 2009
Muravyev, Alexander - 2010
former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …
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Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
Muravyev, Alexander - 2010
former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …
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Safety and labour conditions : the accord and the national tripartite plan of action for the garment industry of Bangladesh
Khan, Mohd Raisul Islam; Wichterich, Christa - 2015
The factory fire at Tazreen Fashions in 2012 and the collapse of the Rana Plaza in 2013 generated a huge outcry about the working conditions and labour relations in the Readymade Garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh, and led to the adoption of the multi-stakeholder agreements Accord on Fire and...
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Occupational safety in a frictional labor market
Kerndler, Martin - 2022
This paper studies the provision of occupational safety when the labor market is subject to search frictions. While safety measures are costly for firms, they reduce workers' mortality. We show that the presence of search frictions decreases the socially optimal level of occupational safety...
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Compensation and crash incidence : evidence from the national survey of driver wages
Ryley, Walter T.; Belzer, Michael H. - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 34 (2023) 1, pp. 118-139
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Estimating the value of gender- and race-specific job injury risk
Mridha, Hosne A.; Khan, Farida Chowdhury - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 34 (2023) 1, pp. 140-156
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Psychische Belastung und deren Herausforderungen
Ferreira, Yvonne; Vogt, Joachim - In: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft 76 (2021) 2, pp. 202-219
Psychische Belastung stellt sowohl für die Praxis als auch für die Wissenschaft eine aktuelle Herausforderung dar. Einerseits zeigen Veröffentlichungen, dass der Sprachgebrauch und das Verständnis der Einwirkungen und Auswirkungen des Belastungs-Beanspruchungs-Konzeptes – trotz DIN EN ISO...
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Special pension schemes for workers in arduous and hazardous jobs: Functions and conditions to ensure equal treatment
Mittlaender, Sergio - In: International Social Security Review 76 (2023) 1, pp. 109-126
Most jurisdictions grant differentiated and more beneficial treatment – usually in the form of early retirement, and commonly under special pension schemes – to workers in arduous or hazardous jobs. Several justifications for such treatment have been advanced, including i) compensating the...
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Immigrant labor and workplace safety
Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998
Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...
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Überlast anzeigen
Demuth, Ute; Gümbel, Michael - 2016
Ausgewertet werden 24 Regelungen aus über 20 Jahren Vereinbarungspraxis. Quer durch unterschiedliche Branchen geht es um Umgangsweisen mit Überlastungs- bzw. Gefährdungsanzeigen. Welche Ursachen haben Überlastungssituationen? Wie wird die Interessenvertretung eingebunden? Wie gestaltet sich...
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