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Inequality in electricity consumption and economic growth : evidence from a small area estimation study

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Nguyen, Duc Khuong; Tran Quang Tuyen - 2021

districts and provinces in Vietnam. Households in the mountains and highlands consumed remarkably less electricity than those in … the delta and coastal areas. Notably, we find a U-shaped relationship between the inequality of electricity consumption … and economic levels in Vietnam. In poor districts and provinces, there is very high inequality in electricity consumption …

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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers

DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...

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Life satisfaction and job insecurity : evidence from Albania

Drishti, Elvisa; Carmichael, Fiona - 2022

Fear of the threat of job loss is likely to elicit negative thoughts that have adverse consequences for not only job satisfaction, but also, all-round happiness and satisfaction with life. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data, this study provides evidence of the negative effect...

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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets

Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021

This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western...

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Run, graduate, run : internationally mobile students' reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe

Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2021

Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...

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Worker stress and performance pay : German survey evidence

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2021

While performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages, it has also been associated with a deterioration of worker health. The transmission mechanisms for this deterioration remain in doubt. We examine the hypothesis that increased stress is one transmission...

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Germany's labour market in Coronavirus distress : new challenges to safeguarding employment

Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021

We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas during the Great Recession all working-time instruments...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...

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The labor market integration of refugees and other migrants in Germany

Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2021

Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a …

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Reconciling the opposing economic effects of works councils across databases

Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2021

Recent studies on the economic effects of works councils in Germany using the European Company Survey estimate a …

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