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Do International Tourist Arrivals Change Residents' Attitudes Towards Immigration? A Longitudinal Study of 28 European Countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023

Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …

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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model

Jasso, Guillermina - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …

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How unjust! An experimental investigation of supervisors' evaluation errors and agents' incentives

Marchegiani, Lucia; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rizzolli, Matteo - 2011

In our simple model the supervisor: i) cannot observe the agent's effort; ii) aims at inducing the agent to exert high effort; but iii) can only offer rewards based on performance. Since performance is only stochastically related to effort, evaluation errors may occur. In particular, deserving...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession

Ward, Melanie E.; Sloane, Peter J. - 1999

This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. Recent studies have revealed that in the labour force as a whole women generally express themselves as more satisfied...

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...

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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Shields, Michael A.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2000

In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...

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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession

Shields, Michael A. - 2000

This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find that nearly 40% of nurses have experienced racial harassment from work colleagues, whilst more...

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