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establishments, and increasing assortativeness in the assignment of workers to plants. In contrast, the idiosyncratic job …
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Survey on self-reported physical job demands indicate that immigrants do not perceive their jobs as requiring more physical …
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population and therefore also include those who no longer work, taking occupational demands related to their last job. First, we …
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, group bonuses and share ownership) and job satisfaction. Critically, this relationship remains after conditioning on wage … survive a variety of methods aimed at accounting for unobserved individual and job-specific characteristics. We investigate …' modes of pay dampen the negative wellbeing effects of what we typically think of as "bad" aspects of job quality. Finally …
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Working conditions in developing countries, such as those associated with the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, remain stubbornly low despite strict laws regulating hours, pay practices and occupational safety and health. Recent theoretic and empirical work suggests that norms and learning...
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A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...
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This paper reconsiders the nexus between the abundance of resources and the origins of Sicilian mafia by exploiting a new set of historical data on the Sicilian sulphur industry in the late 19th century, obtained from official reports of the Royal Corps of Mining Engineers at the municipal...
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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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demonstrate the role of working conditions in the following three domains: overall life-satisfaction; satisfaction with one's job …
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classification of occupations according to the risk of contagion: by considering a wider range of job characteristics and a more …
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