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Decent work and work life quality in Nepal : an observation
Adhikari, Dev R.; Hirasawa, Katsuhiko; Takakubo, Yutaka; … - In: Employee relations 34 (2012) 1, pp. 61-79
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487361
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The Disability Employment Puzzle : A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior
Ameri, Mason - 2015
People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a … findings is consistent with the idea that disability discrimination continues to impede employment prospects of people with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015109
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Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153311
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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019
measures of self-employment and 1099 workers from administrative tax data. We also present evidence from Amazon Mechanical Turk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895487
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Robots, Occupations, and Worker Age : A Production-Unit Analysis of Employment
Deng, Liuchun; Müller, Steffen; Plümpe, Verena; … - 2023
We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German … employment effects for the least routine-task intensive occupations and for young workers, the latter being better at adapting to … change. An event-study analysis for robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find decreasing employment for any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356758
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Work Environment and "Opt-Out" Rates at Motherhood Across High-Education Career Paths
Herr, Jane - 2010
Using data from the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and a sample of Harvard alumnae, we study the relationship between work environment and the labor force participation of mothers. We first document a large variation in labor force participation rates across high-education fields....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757881
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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019
sizeable proportion faces risk of being in disguised or dependent employment relationship, works informally, and has a poor …
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Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2016
We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992738
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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace
Addison, John T. - 2018
A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919503
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Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries
Cottini, Elena - 2010
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148334