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Temporary labour migration and welfare at the new European fringe : a comparison of five Eastern European countries
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2009
This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832067
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The dynamics of the regulation of labor in developing and developed countries since 1960
Campos, Nauro; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2012
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629025
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The impact of right-to-work laws on long hours and work schedules
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Tan, Jian Qi - 2023
Unions play a crucial role in determining wages and employment outcomes. However, union bargaining power may also have important effects on non-pecuniary working conditions. We study the effects of right-to-work laws, which removed agency shop protection and weakened union powers on long hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423796
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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 … adverse overall working conditions on mental health distress. We show that labour market institutions, and health and safety … regulation ; labour market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937034
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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2020
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289174
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Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2016
. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572021
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Unsafe temperatures, unsafe jobs : the impact of weather conditions on work-related injuries
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather conditions matched to administrative daily data on work-related accidents. The identification strategy of the causal effect relies on the plausible exogeneity of short-term daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281260
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more … employees compared to contractors. This result, robust to a number of checks, highlights the role of labour regulations as an … additional driver of more flexible labour formats. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541305
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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach
Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010
from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011538