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Do Employees Profit from Profit Sharing? Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Long, Richard J. - 2012

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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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability : Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; van der Sluis, Justin - 2021

generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory …

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Employees Who Become Self-Employed : Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Andersson, Pernilla - 2006

to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted income on the probability to become self …-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a standard income regression with controls for age, education, family status …, family background and place of residence. By construction of a ratio between the actual and the predicted income we identify …

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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2021

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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Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers : Evidence from Poland

Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2023

, 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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Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany

Merz, Joachim - 2018

Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of...

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Paid Work after Retirement : Recent Trends in Denmark

Larsen, Mona - 2012

The labor market in Denmark seems to follow the trend in a number of other countries of increasing labor force participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval 60-64 and for the age group 65-74 where people are eligible to a national social security program...

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Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House : Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement

Battistin, Erich - 2014

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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The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement : Active vs. Passive Decisions

Lalive, Rafael - 2020

additional structure point identifies the fraction at 67%. An original survey of Swiss pensioners reveals that reference …

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Opening the Black Box : Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Blackwood, G.Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

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