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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282402
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Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273853
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Long-term employment and job security over the last twenty-five years: A comparative study of Japan and the US
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - 2011
Taking advantage of a recent relaxation of Japanese government's data release policy, we conduct a cross-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is to document and contrast changes in long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282605
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Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016
Unions make differences to employee satisfaction that correspond to their effects on individual economic advantage. Panel data reveal how changes in economic circumstance and changes in job satisfaction are linked to changes in union coverage. When individuals move into a union covered job they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479394
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The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution
Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - 2004
fragilized by the process of globalization. The model generates results concerning the macroeconomic equilibrium employment level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262146
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Workers' views of the impact of trade on jobs
Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - 2010
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers' perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278485
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Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs
Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers’ perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764585
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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 visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262168
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The (Unexpected) Structure of ?Rents? on the French and British Labour Markets
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2004
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262172
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Why So Unhappy? : The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262213