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Complementarity in employee participation systems
Burdín, Gabriel; Kato, Takao - 2021
isolation, each work practice is considered an element of HIWS (High Involvement Work System), an employment system comprised of …
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Quantity and quality of work in the platform economy
Bogliacino, Francesco; Codagnone, Cristiano; Cirillo, … - 2019
This critical and scoping review essay analyses digital labour markets where labour-intensive services are traded by matching requesters (employers and/or consumers) and providers (workers). It first discusses to what extent labour platform can be treated as two-sided or multi-sided markets, and...
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Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2018
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003-2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs...
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The impact of working conditions onmental health : novel evidence from the UK
Belloni, Michele; Carrino, Ludovico; Meschi, Elena - 2022
This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Condition Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806651
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How the past of outsourcing and offshoring is the future of post-pandemic remote work : a typology, a model, and a review
Erickson, Christopher L.; Norlander, Peter - 2021
Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage workers beyond organizational and physical boundaries. A typology connects a variety of non-traditional work organizations made possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603416
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Work organisation, human capital and innovation strategies : new evidence from firm-level Italian data
Capriati, Michele; Divella, Marialuisa - 2017
By using firm-level data provided by the fourth round of the (Italian) Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2012), this paper explores whether the implementation of specific changes in work organisation within a firm influences its innovation performance, not only directly, but also via reinforcing...
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Flexible work organization and employer provided training : evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018
We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that employees are more likely to receive training when...
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The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender gap in education and employment : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021
education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education … in reducing gender gap in employment. …
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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391350
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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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