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Gender differences in preferences for meaning at work
Burbano, Vanessa; Padilla, Nicolas; Meier, Stephan - 2020
In an effort to better understand occupational segregation by gender, scholars have begun to examine gender differences in preferences for job characteristics. We contend that a critical job characteristic has been overlooked to date: meaning at work; and in particular, meaning at work induced...
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360846
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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379209
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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013
Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787342
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252636
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Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Stokes, Lucy - 2015
This paper uses linked employer-employee data to investigate the relationship between employees' subjective well-being and workplace performance in Britain. The analyses show a clear, positive and statistically-significant relationship between the average level of job satisfaction at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281611
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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits : do they work? ; if so, at what level do they work best?
Spencer, Marilyn K.; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015
This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time faculty and staff members at a public university in the United States, we study the impact of this...
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What is a good job?
Eichhorst, Werner; Wozny, Florian; Mähönen, Erno - 2015
After the apparent rise of so‐called atypical and 'precarious' jobs, the quality of employment has become of interest because such employment relationships are often related to objectively or subjectively worse working conditions. In this paper we look in detail into what is known about job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376307
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Sex, race, and job satisfaction among highly educated workers
Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean - 2015
There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346636
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Job satisfaction and employee turnover : a firm-level perspective
Frederiksen, Anders - 2015
In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317656