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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace

Addison, John T. - 2018

A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...

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Disability and Skill Mismatch

Jones, Melanie K. - 2009

This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...

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Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes

Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 2021

The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis … shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This … from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET). Nursing jobs require higher levels of skills and more difficult working …

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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance

Jones, Melanie K. - 2011

This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...

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Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers : Evidence from an Inland City

Wang, Huashu - 2013

China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes towards living and working form an increasing share of the migrant labour force. At the same time, the destinations of migrants are changing as a result of government policies...

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Unhappy Working with Men? Workplace Gender Diversity and Employee Job-Related Well-Being in Britain : A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Haile, Getinet A. - 2009

This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain, I employ econometric techniques that account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find...

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Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance : Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company

Bellmann, Lutz - 2020

Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...

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Job Satisfaction, Structure of Working Environment and Firm Size

Tansel, Aysit - 2022

Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...

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Works Councils as Gatekeepers : Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023

This paper analyzes the role of works councils as gatekeepers safeguarding employee's interests in the adoption of monitoring practices. We first introduce a formal model predicting that (i) the introduction of monitoring practices leads to a stronger increase (or weaker decrease) in job...

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Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection

Gielen, Anne C. - 2012

Job protection reduces job turnover by changing firms' hiring and firing decisions. Yet the effect of job protection on workers' quit decisions and post-quit outcomes is still unknown. We present the first evidence using individual panel data from 12 European countries, which differ both in...

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