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We investigate the effects of works councils on employees’ wages and job satisfaction ingeneral and for subgroups with … move to a firmwith a works council, report increases in job satisfaction, but do not receive particular wageincreases …. Especially the job satisfaction of female employees is affected by a change inworks council status. However, we do not find …
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characteristics such as WLB andgender segregation boost the satisfaction of women proportionately more than that of men … satisfaction but similarly for bothdemographic groups thereby reducing the gender gap in job satisfaction only slightly. Still … only explain a half of thegender gap in job satisfaction, suggesting that the other half may be due to …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health ofworkers using the German Socio …
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This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual jobsatisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. Thisruns contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons insubjective well-being...
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this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. e know little about the predictive power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data …
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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data...
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature ofthe latter....
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This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women´s labour supply changes inresponse to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reformschanged individuals´ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply.We find evidence of small...
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This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling -the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is atransitory phenomenon...
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Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. Thispaper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific traininginvestments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training...
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