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Environmental Engagement, Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Secularization

Briguglio, Marie; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2021

religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and … increasingly important phenomenon which has received far less attention is that of spirituality, within/out the context of a … religion. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the question in a predominantly Roman Catholic European Union …

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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysit - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Substitution between Managers and Subordinates : Evidence from British Football

Bridgewater, Sue - 2009

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...

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Unemployment Duration and Disability : Evidence from Portugal

Sciulli, Dario - 2009

In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on (re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and...

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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2021

Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021

Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...

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Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics

Garibaldi, Pietro - 2021

This paper proposes a matching model that distinguishes between job creation by existing firms and job creation by firm entrants. The paper argues that vacancy posting and job destruction on the extensive margin, i.e. from firms that enter and exit the labour market, represents a viable...

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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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Endogenous Indoctrination : Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Growing Up in a Recession : Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

Giuliano, Paola - 2009

Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....

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