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Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, this paper examines whether employee earnings increase, decrease, or do not change in the period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing, relative to establishments that do not adopt profit sharing. Our research contributes to...
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In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
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generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory …
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, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the … income or other job opportunities much more often than natives, who mostly do it for autonomy. Migrants' job quality is … job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also …
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Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...
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; however, the difference in prosociality is explained by differences in the composition of the workforce across the two sectors …
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This paper investigates the role of childcare provided by grandparents for the fertility decisions of their offspring. We exploit a decade of pension reforms in Italy that mandated the grandparental generation to a working horizon longer than they would have had otherwise. We argue that the rise...
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additional structure point identifies the fraction at 67%. An original survey of Swiss pensioners reveals that reference …
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income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …'s deep recession in the 1990s. Instead, relatively, pensioners fared better than the working age population. On the other …
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We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...
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