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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
set out to investigate such determinants. Workforce disposal is present also in Spain, though to a lesser extent than … workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join …
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Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories
Lake, Henrietta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
buyer with the same local pool of labor. One factory views its workforce as a variable cost to be minimized, limits training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247696
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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
labor markets during periods of workforce growth and decline. We find multiple ports of entry that are concentrated in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763801
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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Nielsen, Niels Westergaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469712
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy
Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822297
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Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System
Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U.S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773920
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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884258
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Immigration and Labor Productivity: New Empirical Evidence for Spain
Nicodemo, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The purpose of this paper of this paper is to explore the immigration and productivity in Spain. We estimate the effect … of immigration on labor productivity from 2004 until 2008 for Spain. Using firms (SABI) and individuals data (Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884345
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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To examine this twofold feature, we apply Blanchard and Katz's...
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Intergenerational Transmission of ‘Religious Capital’: Evidence from Spain
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper examines intergenerational transmission of 'religious capital' from parents to their offspring, within an economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of Catholic Spaniards who grew up in Catholic households...
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