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Wage determination in the US airline industry : union power under product market constraints

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2006

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry's economic …

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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions. …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Obesity and economic performance of young workers in Italy

Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2015

In this paper we explore recent ISFOL-PLUS 2006-2008-2010 data available for Italy about height and weight of young workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among the latter, we introduce job satisfaction, both...

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Job satisfaction and public service motivation

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago to German public employees within the frame of...

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Job satisfaction and self-selection into the public or private sector : evidence from a natural experiment

Danzer, Natalia - 2013

Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...

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