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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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Ideology
Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763921
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Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence
Hall, Robert; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
away from existing jobs is another key determinant of equilibrium, because a worker with an existing job has a better … their employers, a sign of wage posting. We find that another third bargained over pay before accepting their current jobs …. And about 40 percent of workers could have remained on their earlier jobs at the time they accepted their current jobs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233804
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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548579
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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs
Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003952
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Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty
Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233925
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Work Hours Constraints: Impacts and Policy Implications
Constant, Amelie F.; Otterbach, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know …
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403390
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Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods
Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
neighbourhoods. This income information is matched to demographic and economic satisfaction variables from eight years of Danish ECHP … data. Panel regression analysis shows that, conditional on own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction … marginal effect in satisfaction terms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703535
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Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed
Clark, Andrew E.; Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763614