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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...

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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation

Forth, John - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

White, Michael R. - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...

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Gender and Competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …

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Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm : What Evidence is There for Monopsony?

Booth, Alison L. - 2010

Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest not only in its own …

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Hours of Work and Gender Identity : Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

van Ours, Jan C. - 2006

happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison L. - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated

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Back-to-Front Down-Under? Part-Time/Full-Time Wage Differentials in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Wood, Margi - 2021

In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the … proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia tops the OECD league in terms of its proportion of working men who … first four waves of the new Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. We find that, once unobserved …

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Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing

Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew; Green, Colin P. - 2022

A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in...

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