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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
estimation models, we investigate whether the effects vary by gender, age, birth year, and employment status … union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079146
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The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning : Work-Related Training and Social Capital
Ruhose, Jens - 2019
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243161
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Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-Market Expectations, and Willingness to Train
Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina - 2023
We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...
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Lifting the veil: The face of TFP in an Indian rail mill
Das, Sanghamitra; Krishna, Kala M.; Lychagin, Sergey; … - 2011
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to understand how output rose sharply in response to competitive pressures. Output increases came predominantly from reductions in production delays of various kinds. We model...
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency: The case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M.S.; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
BARZA, Radu - 2020
Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the … entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of … industries and occupations. We find that employees in high-skilled occupations and industries experience lower gender wage gaps …
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Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - 2008
This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …
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Why so unhappy? : The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...
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