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Gender and Career Progression in Academia : European Evidence

Morettini, Lucio; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023

We study career trajectories of university researchers in Europe, with a particular emphasis on the speed of career progression by gender. Using the panel data collected by the MORE project (Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector) - a longitudinal database that gathers survey responses...

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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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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …

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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...

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Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2010

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after … existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to remit while in terms of regional effects …

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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance

Forth, John - 2018

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...

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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

White, Michael - 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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Worker Representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers

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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union : An Overview

Kahanec, Martin - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU

Giulietti, Corrado - 2011

The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates...

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