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Flextime as a determinant of sickness absence: A men to women and juniors to seniors comparison
Bouville, Gregor - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
The goal of this study is to analyze the previously unexplored gender and age specific relationship of flextime with absenteeism. This work is based on a French national survey on work organization and working conditions carried out on 25 000 employees. The approach taken is a quantitative...
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Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy
Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - CESifo - 2003
One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
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Why so Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - CESifo - 2005
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...
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Job Mobility and the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2008
This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...
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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction
Bianchi, Milo - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
jobs. In this setting, financial development favors a better matching between individual motivation and occupation, thereby …
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A Research of Various Work Variables on Pharmacists Operating in Service Industry: the Province of Erzurum Sample
Guzel, Dilsad - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Pharmacists are people who sell instant drugs prescribed by doctors to customer prepare other necessary drugs and conduct research regarding the development and analyses of drugs in laboratories.Their education and experience on health issues and their accessibility make them an important actor...
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THE INVESTIGATION OF BURNOUT AND JOB DISSATISFACTION LEVELS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
Efilti, Erkan - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
The aim of this study is to find out the burnout and job satisfaction levels of teachers working in the field of special education and compare them in terms of some variables. Following sub-purposes were examined in order to achieve these purposes. Is there a relationship between the burnout...
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - CESifo - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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Gouvernance, démocratie et lutte contre la pauvreté : enseignements tirés des enquêtes auprès des ménages en Afrique sub-saharienne et en Amérique latine
Roubaud, François; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Herrera, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)
; the “need for the State”, particularly of the poorest; the extent of petty corruption; the reliability of expert surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071859
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Corruption and trust in political institutions in sub-Saharan Africa
Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of corruption on the extent of trust in political institutions using a rich collection …, we set out to test the “efficient grease” hypothesis that corruption can strengthen citizens’ trust since bribe paying … institutional trust. Our findings reject this theoretical argument. We show that corruption never produces trust-enhancing effects …
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