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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989842
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406845
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Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? : A Case Study of Australia
Paul, Satya; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Yasmeen, Wahida - 2004
panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261915
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Job Mobility along the Technological Ladder : A Case Study of Australia
Kapuscinski, Cezary A.; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Meng, Xin - 2004
Labour economists have been increasingly interested in the impact of technological change upon employment and unemployment. However, the predominant focus of empirical studies has been on employment and unemployment stocks, whereas technological change is more likely to affect the flows of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261917
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? : New Migrant Settlement in Australia
Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Mahuteau, Stéphane - 2004
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different … obtains on arrival in Australia. We provide alternative definitions of what is a good job in terms of objective and subjective … criteria. The paper uses two sets of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia data: the first cohort that arrived in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262168
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? The role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, P. N. (Raja) - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the occupational ladder, followed by improvements. As a result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272890
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Antagonistic managers, careless workers and extraverted salespeople: an examination of personality in occupational choice
Ham, Roger; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Wells, Robert - 2009
Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data. Human capital variables are found to exhibit strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272891
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Occupational choice: personality matters
Ham, Roger; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Wells, Robert - 2009
from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to estimate a random effects probit model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274347
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Was there a skills shortage in Australia?
Junankar, P. N. (Raja) - 2009
The paper analyses the problem of a skills shortage in Australia. It begins with an analysis of the operation of a … skills shortage, why it persists, and then looks at evidence from Australia, in particular, the resource rich states of … Queensland and Western Australia over the past decade. It discusses possible employer responses to a skills shortage. Finally, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274348