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Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Labor Market Reforms

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary … assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and investigate this question by an examination of the relationship between … and weakness rather than consumer price inflation. As a second step, we point out that risks for EMU are not only …

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A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-being of Spanish Workers

Guzi, Martin; de Pedraza, Pablo - 2013

This paper makes use of a large sample of individual data obtained from web surveys in the WageIndicator project. Data includes extensive information on the quality of working conditions together with different well-being indicators. The paper emphasizes the role of work-related characteristics...

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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?

Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - 2014

The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent occupation-specific demands explain the relationship between education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed...

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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages

Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen; Powell, David; … - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...

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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms: Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy

Aleksynska, Mariya; Bastrakova, Anastasia; Kharchenko, … - 2019

Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national boundaries. Increasingly, workers are located in...

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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018

This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...

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Work, risk and health: Differences between immigrants and natives in Spain

Solé, Meritxell; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodriguez … - 2010

We analyze the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk associated to it. We assume this choice is...

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Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces: Where are They and Who Controls Them?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. The risks workers face and the control they have over those risks are weakly negatively correlated....

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Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Better Work Jordan

Robertson, Raymond - 2019

This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...

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Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions. Consumers, non-governmental organizations,...

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