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Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations
Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023
In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in …
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Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
Flabbi, Luca; Tejada, Mauricio - 2023
The paper performs both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to address a fundamental question in the growing literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as employee be considered two different labor market states?...
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Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers : Evidence from Poland
Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - 2023
The gig economy has grown worldwide, opening labour markets but raising concerns about precariousness. Using a tailored, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the gaps between natives and migrants, who...
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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023
Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper …
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Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Drago, Robert W. - 2011
We consider desires for flexibility in weekly hours by analyzing changes in work hours preferences using four years of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We control for work hours preferences in previous years and test for effects on desired labor...
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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
Autor, David H. - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2015
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches … conventional in-depth statistical case study of the cooperating firm and its employees. This is a high-turnover service industry … setting, and the focus is on the use of survival analysis to model the flow of new employees into and out of employment, and …
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Immigrants and Workplace Training : Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data
Dostie, Benoit - 2019
Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study we …-borns experience different opportunities in two well-defined measures of firm-sponsored training: on-the-job training and classroom … training.While we find no differences in on-the-job training between different groups, our results suggest that visible …
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Corporate Hierarchies Under Employee Representation
Belloc, Filippo - 2020
correlates with job training and skill development, suggesting that the effect of ER (if any) is to reduce knowledge costs …
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Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?
Blau, Francine D. - 2020
Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We develop a working definition that may inform additional research and policy...
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