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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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Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City
Wang, Huashu; Heerink, Nico - 2013
China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes … in medium and small size cities, often located in western and central China. Understanding the characteristics and … inland China. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the characteristics, working conditions and job attitudes …
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Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City
Wang, Huashu; Pan, Lei; Heerink, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes … in medium and small size cities, often located in western and central China. Understanding the characteristics and … inland China. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the characteristics, working conditions and job attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659257
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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...
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Does outsourcing increase profitability?
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2004
We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of the data is that it records detailed information...
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Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration
Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques - 2019
The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis a decade later. Research...
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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? : Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261830
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Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul - 2004
There is increasing pressure for the flexibility of labour markets both in current EU member states and candidate countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment protection regulation, one of the most relevant aspects of labour market flexibility, and the degree of its actual...
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