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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019
sizeable proportion faces risk of being in disguised or dependent employment relationship, works informally, and has a poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870248
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Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2016
We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992738
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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace
Addison, John T. - 2018
A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919503
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Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries
Cottini, Elena - 2010
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148334
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Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets
Antón, José-Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2021
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314731
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Work Environment and "Opt-Out" Rates at Motherhood Across High-Education Career Paths
Herr, Jane Leber - 2009
Using data from the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and a sample of Harvard alumnae, we study the relationship between work environment and the labor force participation of mothers. We first document a large variation in labor force participation rates across high-education fields....
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The shortfall in formal employee participation at the European workplace
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
Cross-country data are used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in EU establishments with formal workplace employee representation. The desire for greater involvement is smaller where workplace representation is via works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942680
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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933755
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Worker satisfaction and worker representation : the jury is still out
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
This paper investigates the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation, to include works councils as well as local union agencies. The paper marks a clear shift away from the traditional focus on union membership per se because its sample of EU nations have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473687
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Automation and employment over the technology life cycle : evidence from European regions
Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024
exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …
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