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, group bonuses and share ownership) and job satisfaction. Critically, this relationship remains after conditioning on wage … levels, which suggests these pay methods provide utility to workers in addition to that through higher wages. These findings …
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increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage … inequality between permanent and contract workers, since contract workers earn substantially lower wages than their counterpart …. The lower wage earned by contract worker is largely due to cost cutting, rather than differences in labour productivity …
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This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are … hypothesis is contrasted with Rosen’s theory of equalising differences where security and wages are substitutes. The empirical …
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representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find … that part of this wage gap is due to differences in unobserved characteristics of workers across family and non …-family firms. However, we also find evidence that company wage policies differ according to ownership status, so that workers …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b)...
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Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but they also often involve increased responsibility … and overall job satisfaction in the short term, and that promotions have short and longer term effects on job control, job … stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have …
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offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying … negative. Our evidence also shows that offshoring to high-wage countries stimulates the vertical mobility of employees in …
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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...
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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...
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