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Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024

Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...

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Changes in the structure of earnings during the Polish transition

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … substantially, and by similar amounts. This illustrates how even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved towards competitive wage …, in contrast to the U.S. and U.K. experiences, increases in within-group inequality in Poland were very different across …

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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics : a proposal for a methodology on cross section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...

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The distribution of wages in transition countries

Newell, Andrew - 2001

inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland … in Poland, though there is no change in hourly wage inequality, structural change has had clear impacts of the …

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Earnings inequality and transition : a regional analysis of Poland

Sibley, Christopher W.; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2002

In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in regions that are more advanced in restructuring (higher labour productivity/job reallocation rates), controlling for...

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Inequality, transfers and growth : new evidence from the economic transition in Poland

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using …

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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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Long shadows of history : persecution in Central Europe and its labor market consequences

Myck, Michał; Bohacek, Radim - 2011

We analyze the extent and effects of job-related persecution under communist regimes in the Czech Republic and Poland … degree of state control over the labour market in the former Czechoslovakia compared to Poland and different characteristics …

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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences

Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018

market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798238

What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020

We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199176

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