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The Outcome of NGOs' Activism in Developing Countries under Visibility Constraint

Fontagné, Lionel; Limardi, Michela - HAL - 2011

companies producing in these countries pay more when NGOs campaigns take place and reputation counts. However, whether this … external pressure from NGOs benefit local workers outside MNEs affiliates in host countries remains an open issue. Segmented … and weak local labour unions often rely on external funding from the North and technical assistance by labour NGOs. They …

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Employability of young graduates in Europe

Garrouste, Christelle; Rodrigues, Margarida - HAL - 2013

Purpose - This paper aims at measuring the potential role of the field of education and the fact of having worked during studies on the employability of the higher educated (ISCED 5-6) cohort targeted by the ET2020 graduates' employability benchmark. Design/methodology/approach - Using the same...

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Effect of organic contract farming on labor demand. A study case in the Western Uganda

Guimas, Céline - HAL - 2012

in country where labor supply is scarce. However, in a country like Uganda where rural poor are often underemployed and …

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Do incentive systems spur work motivations of inventors in high-tech firms

Lazaric, Nathalie; Raybaut, Alain - HAL - 2014

In this article, we explore the potential tensions between the incentive systems of group of inventors and knowledge diversity in a high tech firm.

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Operational Competence Management Comparison of Industrial Frameworks

Grabot, Bernard; Houé, Raymond - HAL - 2009

Competence management is a quite recent but important topic addressed by nowadays companies for improving their organization. With examples coming from several industrial projects, we show the difficulty of defining a consistent competence management framework, and exhibit the inconsistencies...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Job Satisfaction and Quits

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Simonnet, … - HAL - 2007

We test the wealth maximization theory of quitting behavior on the German Socioeconomic Panel (1985-2003). With the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job against available alternatives, the propensity to stay in the present job is...

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Reported job satisfaction : What does it mean?

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - HAL - 2004

We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction. The main prediction that we test is that job satisfaction correlates with the wage gaps experienced in the past and present,...

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Financial development, entrepreneurship and job satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2008

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non- monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738704

Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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