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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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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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This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well … unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that gender diversity is associated with lower employee well-being among women in …
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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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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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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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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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Poland has traditionally been treated as an emigration country. Since recently Poland has been changing into an … on immigration to Poland and instruments of integration policy in the context of the existing institutional framework. We … propose also recommendations for the pre-integration and integration policy in Poland. The goal of the paper is modest since …
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Between 2002 and 2015, temporary employment in Poland more than doubled. Poland became the country with the highest … Poland prefer to employ temporary rather than permanent workers because of the lower firing costs, tax wedges, and wages …
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, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the … job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also … cluster on taxi platforms which offer inferior working conditions. Poland is a New Immigration Destination where ethnic …
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