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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...

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How trade unions increase welfare

Donado Gomez, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - 2011

health standards. According to our interpretation, workplace safety is costly for firms but increases the average health of … workers and thereby the aggregate labour supply. A laissez-faire approach in which firms set safety standards is suboptimal as … workers are not fully informed of health risks associated with jobs. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are …

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Improved menstrual health and the workplace : an RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers

Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2023

Menstruation can limit female labor force participation, especially in low-income countries, where menstrual hygiene practices are constrained by lack of finances and information. In a randomized controlled trial with around 1,900 female workers from four Bangladeshi garment factories, we relax...

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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...

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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...

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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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How much do workers actually value working from home?

Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022

Working from home (WFH) has become ubiquitous around the world. We ask how much workers actually value this job attribute. Using a stated-preference experiment, we show that German employees are willing to give up 7.7% of their earnings for WFH, but they value other job attributes more. For...

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Picture this: social distance and the mistreatment of migrant workers

Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtěch; Licuanan, Victoria S.; … - 2022

We experimentally study an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino overseas domestic workers (DWs) by their employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced DW mistreatment, increased their job satisfaction,...

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High-pressure, high-paying jobs?

Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022

Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...

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When protection becomes exploitation : the impact of firing costs on present-biased employees

Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; … - 2023

Employment protection harms early-career employees without benefitting them in later career stages (Leonardi and Pica, 2013). We demonstrate that this pattern can result from employers exploiting naïve present-biased employees. Employers offer a dynamic contract with low early-career wages, an...

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