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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
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Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers (road...
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Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and … Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so … Europe. Trade does not affect wages at all, and hardly affect employment. Thus one can expect that, while the Austrian labour …
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by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
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Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...
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Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
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flexible und sichere Übergänge auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu gewährleisten und über Weiterbildung die Anpassung an veränderte …
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of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …
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The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...
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Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...
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