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Public sector jobs: working in the public sector in Europe and the US

Checchi, Daniele; Fenizia, Alessandra; Lucifora, Claudio - 2021

This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical work on public employment management and presents novel stylized facts on public sector jobs. In the first part, we examine the evolution of managerial practices in the public sector and discuss the contractual arrangement of public sector...

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Working conditions, transparency, and compliance in global value chains : evidence from Better Work Jordan

Robertson, Raymond - 2019

This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...

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Working conditions on digital labour platforms : evidence from a leading labour supply economy

Aleksynska, Mariya; Bastrakova, Anastasia; Kharchenko, … - 2019

Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use … them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national … workers of Ukraine, which in 2013-2017 occupied the first place in Europe, and the fourth place in the world in terms of the …

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Does robotization affect job quality? : evidence from European regional labour markets

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; … - 2020

-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995-2005 combining information from the World Robotics Survey and the European …

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Mental health and working conditions in European countries

Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 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...

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Temporary agency work and the Great Recession

Baumgarten, Daniel; Kvasnicka, Michael - 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...

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High performance workplace practices and job satisfaction : evidence from Europe

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor) - 2004

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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What do workers want? : the shortfall in employee participation at the European workplace

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 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...

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Trends in commuting time of European workers : a cross-country analysis

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020

This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those countries. Using data from several waves of the European...

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