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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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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis - 2013
We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....
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Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries : Better Factories Cambodia
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions. Consumers, non-governmental organizations,...
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Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains : Evidence from Better Work Jordan
Robertson, Raymond - 2019
This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...
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Working Conditions and Factory Survival : Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia
Robertson, Raymond - 2016
A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...
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Laws, Costs, Norms, and Learning : Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Brown, Drusilla K. - 2016
Working conditions in developing countries, such as those associated with the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, remain stubbornly low despite strict laws regulating hours, pay practices and occupational safety and health. Recent theoretic and empirical work suggests that norms and learning...
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No Pain, No Gain : The Effects of Exports on Effort, Injury, and Illness
Hummels, David L. - 2016
Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that...
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Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2020
We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by the formal sector to the lower wage informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in...
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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …
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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
Fakih, Ali - 2013
probability of exporting and the export intensity of these firms. The empirical specification is represented through a country … foreign ownership, information and communication technology, and firm size on the probability of exporting and on export … production workers and in terms of non-production workers tend to exert negative effects on firms' propensity to export. The …
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