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Trust and Control at the Workplace:Evidence from Representative Samples ofEmployees in Europe

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

performance appraisalsystems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals’inclination to trust …

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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...

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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Maternal autonomy and the education of the subsequent generation: Evidence from three contrasting states in India

Alfano, Marco; Arulampalam, Wiji; Kambhampati, Uma - 2011

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … duration model where maternal autonomy is entered as a latent characteristic, and allowed to be associated with various … relating to the economic, decision-making, physical and emotional autonomy of a woman. We concentrate on three very different …

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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK

Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...

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Work hours constraints and health

Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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