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And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
Chongvilaivan, Aekapol; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216290
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884090
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Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543275
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Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City
Wang, Huashu; Pan, Lei; Heerink, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes towards living and working form an increasing share of the migrant labour force. At the same time, the destinations of migrants are changing as a result of government policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659257
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Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing
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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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252277
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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Kostov, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766375
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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa: Perceptions Matter
Kostov, Philip; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Annim, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
specification to examine the effect of financial perception. Our results suggests that after controlling for endogeneity of choices … of financial perception however reduces and gradually disappears as one moves up the financial access ladder towards more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766378
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Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data
Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078406
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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants
d'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our findings show that higher education leads to a more...
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