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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Godart, Olivier - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry.The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of leisure …, but culture of leisure has no impact …
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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries
Martins, Pedro S. - 2010
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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Staff Engagement, Coworkers' Complementarity and Employee Retention : Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022
Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive turnover of doctors and nurses can reduce the quality and quantity of services to patients. In the public sector, where salaries are often not negotiable at individual level, workers...
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Do Non-Monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
Sayli, Melisa; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Blanden, Jo; Bojke, Chris - 2022
Excessive turnover reduces the stock of an organization's human capital. In the public sector, where wage increases are often constrained, managers need to leverage non-monetary working conditions to retain their workers. We investigate whether workers are responsive to improvements in non-wage...
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Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
Görg, Holger - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
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Unequal Consequences of Covid-19 Across Age and Income : Representative Evidence from Six Countries
Belot, Michele - 2020
Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …
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Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe
Hansen, Hans - 2016
In this paper, we calculate the disposable incomes in 2012 of three selected family types receiving social assistance in five countries in north-western Europe. We also calculate the net replacement rates for families receiving social assistance, calculated on the basis of the disposable incomes...
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The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality : A Comparative Study for Britain and France
Bryson, Alex - 2017
-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The … associated with non-pecuniary job quality in both countries but in France the association is confined to only the largest firms …
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