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Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Freeman, Richard B.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We show that worker wellbeing is not only related to the amount of compensation workers receive but also how they receive it. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been pre-occupied with individual performance-related pay, we here demonstrate a robust positive link between the...

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Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one’s own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...

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Why So Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination

Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …

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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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Increasing Shadow Economies all over the World - Fiction or Reality?

Ernste, Dominik; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

negative impact on official GDP growth, however, a positive impact of corruption on the size of the shadow economy can be found …, i.e. the bigger the corruption, the larger is the shadow economy. …

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Corruption and the Shadow Economy: A Structural Equation Model Approach

Buehn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … with two latent variables – extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute … and corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow …

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Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …

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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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