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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit
Shields, Michael A.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2000
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...
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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession
Shields, Michael A. - 2000
This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find that nearly 40% of nurses have experienced racial harassment from work colleagues, whilst more...
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2004
Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that a...
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? : New Migrant Settlement in Australia
Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Mahuteau, Stéphane - 2004
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different … obtains on arrival in Australia. We provide alternative definitions of what is a good job in terms of objective and subjective … criteria. The paper uses two sets of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia data: the first cohort that arrived in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262168
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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market
Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas; Sloane, Peter; Wei, … - 2011
data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any …
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Extra status and extra stress: Are promotions good for us?
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2012
Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but they also often involve increased responsibility, accountability and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for workers' wellbeing is an empirical question. Using high-quality panel data we estimate pre- and...
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Underpaid or overpaid? Wage analysis for nurses using job and worker attributes
Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 2008
The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This paper addresses this puzzle. Data from the Current...
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Nurses' labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins
Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2012
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...
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Mental health and working conditions in European countries
Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
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