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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...

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Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy

Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Vuri, Daniela (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...

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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2016

For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...

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Incentives, reputation and the allocation of authority

Englmaier, Florian; Filipi, Ales; Singh, Ravi - 2010

We address the question how much authority a principal should delegate to a manager with conflicting interests and uncertain ability in a context in which the manager has both compensation-based and reputational incentives. The optimal level of authority balances the value of the manager's...

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The effect of incentives in non-routine analytical team tasks : evidence from a field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Schindler, David; … - 2018

Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a field experiment with more than 3000 participants, we document a positive effect of bonus incentives on the probability of completion...

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Work meaning and the flexibility puzzle

De Schouwer, Thimo; Kesternich, Iris - 2024

We study heterogeneity in the prevalence of and preferences for workplace flexibility and work meaning. We show that, internationally, women and parents value flexibility more but do not work more flexible jobs. The gender dimension of this flexibility puzzle is related to differences in...

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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002

Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a viable policy for extracting more labour supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched panel data set of Norwegian nurses covering the period 1993-1998 to estimate...

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Wages anatomy : labor supply of nurses and a comparison with physicians

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2014

We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses’ labor supply with random terms. A distinguished feature of our model is that random terms are correlated over time and jobs (habit persistence). Past options and not only the past optimal choices matter for the current choices....

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Nursing home choice, family bargaining and optimal policy in a hotelling economy

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2016

family bargaining to study the impact of the distribution of bargaining power within the family on the choices of nursing … homes, and on the location and prices chosen by nursing homes in a Hotelling economy. We show that, if the dependent parent … only cares about the distance, whereas his child cares also about the price, the mark up rate of nursing homes is …

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Nursing homes and mortality in Europe : uncertain causality

Flawinne, Xavier; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2022

The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately … want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a … number of important characteristics of the elderly population in and outside nursing homes, we conjecture that the difference …

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