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This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working …
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This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …
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Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If we include all the elements of the social security...
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techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment …. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast …, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …
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We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo …-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes …. Anglo-Saxon lowsupport policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer policies encourage more home …
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We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo …-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes …. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer policies encourage more home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071508
We explore the effects of management innovations on worker well-being using private sector linked employer-employee data for Britain. We find management innovations are associated with lower worker well-being and lower job satisfaction, an effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for...
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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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We study the determinants and consequences of family-friendly workplace practices (FFWP) using a sample of over 450 manufacturing firms in Germany, France, U.K., and U.S. We find a positive correlation between firm productivity and FFWP. This association disappears, however, once we control for...
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predictions about long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and about employment shifts across economic sectors, driven by … aggregate market hours, the complete marketization of home production in agriculture and manufacturing, and the employment shift …
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