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. The city expresses the socio-spatial division of labor and Henri Lefebvre proposes to think of its transformation on the … working class - to that space of power. The city, locus of the surplus, power and the fiesta, a privileged scenario of social … polis and the civitas. Therefore, the urban praxis, formerly restricted to the city, has now re-politicized social space as …
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We build a model of worker interdependence in which two workers can either compete or cooperate and compare performance under either scenario to that of a single worker working in isolation. We show that whilst competition unequivocally reduces performance, cooperation may raise or lower...
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individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade … union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … and sick pay, we identify situations in which it will substitute wages for sick pay because adverse absence effects can be …
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individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade … union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … and sick pay, we identify situations in which it will substitute wages for sick pay because adverse absence effects can be …
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individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade … union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … and sick pay, we identify situations in which it will substitute wages for sick pay because adverse absence effects can be …
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We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance … of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is … predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the within-group variation in absence clearly dominates the between …
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We analyse labour supply and absence from work choices, assuming that individual preferences exhibit relative … consumption concerns. We show that contractual hours and the length of absence periods may vary equally with the strength of … illness periods on contractual work hours and absence behaviour. Consequently, the profitability of employing individuals also …
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This paper investigates the effect of working conditions on the amount of teachers'sickness absence in Norway … amount of sickness absence if the school's resource use increases. Increased workload and permanent employment contract are … associated with higher sickness absence. When stratifying on teachers'age, increased workload appears to have a larger impact on …
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