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which occurs due to microeconomic reform will involve displaced workers - that is, workers who are involuntary permanent job … workers. …
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Layard, Metcalf and Nickell have formed annual estimates of the union mark-up for unskilled males in the United Kingdom manufacturing sector over the period 1951-1983. We critically assess their estimates as an index of union power and propose a number of hypotheses that determine the union...
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as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important … effects on individual workers' health and associated public health costs. Our empirical analysis is based on a rich data set …
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accidents have to do with reporting behaviour of workers and not with changes in workplace safety. …
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What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work … and workers’ physical and mental health outcomes using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in …
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work organization and interdependence between native and foreign workers. The empirical results indicate that there are no … significant differences between natives and foreign workers regarding technological determinants of workplace accidents. The … employment of guest workers has a strong positive effect on the job safety of natives, however. The estimates imply that a 1 …
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This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis," whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead …
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Benefit (UIB) generosity on the other. We find that, after controlling for selection into job types, workers feel most secure … correlated with UIB generosity, while the relationship with EPL strictness is negative: workers feel less secure in countries …
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This Paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...
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-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …
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