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Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Jones, Melanie K.; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...

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Disability and Skill Mismatch

Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...

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Preferences, Gender Segregation and Affirmative Action

Sloane, Peter J.; Grazier, Suzanne; Jones, Richard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In the UK concern has been expressed over the degree of gender occupational segregation. Though there are no general provisions for affirmative action, it does apply in limited areas and pro-active measures have been suggested. In this paper we focus on gender differences in work preferences in...

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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004

Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...

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Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession

Ward, Melanie E.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. Recent studies have revealed that in the labour force as a whole women generally express themselves as more satisfied...

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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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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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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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