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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - 2013
the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the …
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The transformation of hunger revisited
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Bezabih, Mintewab - 2013
We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late 19th century. Using the same data, we conclude that Logan's estimates are thirty percent too low. Logan buttressed his estimates by claiming that the income elasticity of...
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The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years On
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T.; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2014
We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333317
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Men, Women and Unions
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2016
The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in minimising risk, membership should have been boosted. The paper reviews different strands of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653166
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The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality: A Comparative Study for Britain and France
Bryson, Alex; Erhel, Christine; Salibekyan, Zinaïda - 2017
-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The …. Internal Labour Markets (ILMs) are associated with higher job quality in France, but not in Britain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653387
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Nutrition in Interwar Britain: A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T.; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2018
This paper re-examines energy and nutritional available to British working-class households in the 1930s using the individual household expenditure and consumption data derived from the 1937/8 Ministry of Labour household expenditure survey and the 1938/9 individual dietary data collected by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873592
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Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training : Evidence from the UK
Brunello, Giorgio; Gambarotto, Francesca - 2004
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European Community Household Panel to ask whether local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261820
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Poverty in Britain in 1904: an early social survey rediscovered
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2007
Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century … of urban working households in Britain in the period than any other existing record, although they are not without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268201
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Workplace disability diversity and job-related well-being in Britain: a WERS2004 based analysis
Haile, Getinet A. - 2009
-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain, I employ alternative econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269118
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The gender pay gap for private sector employees in Canada and Britain
Drolet, Marie; Mumford, Karen - 2009
. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269161