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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2011

This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...

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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

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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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? Evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination

Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012

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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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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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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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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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2003

In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...

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The Times They are A-Changin'

Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period … 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process … Sweden and Denmark experienced similar declines in employment prospects between 1985 and 1995 despite quite different …

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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001

Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2008

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...

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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007

This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …

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