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increase productivity, flexibility and automation. Moreover, retail chains also seek to lower prices and impose just …
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We compare two approaches to measuring inequity in the health distribution. The first is the concentration index. The second is the calculation of the inequality in an overall measure of individual well-being, capturing both the income and health dimensions. We introduce the concept of...
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La liberté de choix offerte par l’ensemble de choix d’un agent sur l’espace temps-revenu semble offrir une définition plus convaincante du niveau de vie que les définitions traditionnelles. Dans le prolongement d’un résultat de Pattanaik et Xu nous proposons dans cette note une...
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A phenomenon clearly distinguishes men from women as regards work places: absenteeism. The current literature establishes as an unquestionable fact that women are more absent from work then men. To explain the discrepancies between men and women absenteeism rate, some researchers highlight...
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This article develops indicators of vulnerability in employment in seven economic capitals of West Africa and studies their links with individual incomes. Quantitative, distributional and qualitative analyses show that vulnerability compensating mechanism is mainly seen in the informal sector,...
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This study investigates the work status-specific relationship between a large set of organizational factors and intent to leave. Organizational factors includes monotonous work, time pressure, skill variety, job autonomy, working hours, flexible schedule, shift work, post rotations, painful...
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Les gains de productivité constituent sur le moyen-long terme l’un des principaux vecteurs de développement d’une entreprise et, au niveau macro-économique, la principale source de l’élévation du niveau de vie moyen d’une population.
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We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...
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inequalities and trade patterns. We analyze the effect of redistributive policies on the production patterns and welfare. We … terms of trade and the welfare distribution within countries. Our framework hopefully provides a basic tool for studying the … interactions between changes in taris on welfare and inequalities inside and between countries. We obtain non monotone …
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This paper quantifies the effects on welfare of misspecified monetary policy objectives in a stylized DSGE model. We … show that using inappropriate objectives generates relatively large welfare costs. When expressed in terms of ‘consumption … uncertainty decomposition indicates that uncertainty about the properties of markup shocks gives rise to the largest welfare costs. …
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