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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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Decent work and the quality of work and employment

Green, Francis - 2021

This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the narrower concept of 'job quality'. The key axiom is that 'quality' relates to the extent and manner in which working conditions meet people's needs from work. The review emphasises...

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Job satisfaction, structure of working environment and firm size

Tansel, Aysıt - 2022

Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … - determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms. …

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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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Trade shocks, job insecurity and individual health

Piriu, Andreea Alexandra - 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, future health care expenditure is likely the discriminant between nations who will build resilience and those who will not. Despite costly labor-market adjustments due to increased international trade over the last two decades, the health effects of trade...

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The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Marcolin, Arianna; … - 2021

We analyse how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors mediate such relationship, by exploiting a recent, large and dedicated survey distributed to a representative sam- ple of Italian workers. The dedicated survey...

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Platform work and economic insecurity : evidence from Italian survey data

Cirillo, Valeria; Guarascio, Dario; Parolin, Zachary - 2021

The emergence of the platform economy has served as a defining feature of increasing fragmented labour markets in modern economies. Recent research on platform work, however, has struggled to quantify the socio-economic conditions of platform workers relative to other occupation groups....

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More insecure and less paid? : the effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution

Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco; Chirumbolo, Antonio - 2018

This article employs a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using both a semi-parametric and a non-parametric method to examine the pay gap, over the entire wage distribution, between secure and insecure workers on the basis of perceived job insecurity. Using the 2015 INAPP Survey on...

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Telework and time use

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021

, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well as its impacts on traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions … consequently earn higher wages, except for mothers who are willing to accept lower pay for the option to work from home. Finally …

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