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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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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure
Johnston, Andrew C. - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837321
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The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2014
In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We use two different measures to identify the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043668
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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318249
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119545
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Wages as Risk Compensation in Germany
Grund, Christian - 2021
evidence for compensating wage differentials in Germany so far. Estimating wage regressions with data of the German Socio … differentials in Germany is found even though other effects may partly weaken the existing wage premiums due to risks at work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321215
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Worker Stress and Performance Pay : German Survey Evidence
Baktash, Mehrzad; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2022
While performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages, it has also been associated with a deterioration of worker health. The transmission mechanisms for this deterioration remain in doubt. We examine the hypothesis that increased stress is one transmission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030841
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Coming to Work While Sick : An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Hirsch, Boris - 2015
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023426
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Works Councils as Gatekeepers : Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023
linked-employer-employee panel data from Germany. We indeed find that the adoption of formal performance appraisals and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255616