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Work hours constraints and health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269936
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274606
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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
management instrument shape the self-perception of management and engender true, rather than faked, social exchange. The market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262244
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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282511
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Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002
unions are strong and is negative where unions are weak. This notion, encountered in recent research in Britain (and Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262825
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Workplace job satisfaction in Britain: evidence from linked employer-employee data
Haile, Getinet A. - 2009
This paper examines the determinants of job satisfaction in Britain using nationally representative linked employer-employee data (WERS2004) and alternative econometric techniques. It uses eight facets of job satisfaction for the purpose. As well as underscoring the importance of accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269335
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Union decline in Britain
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2008
This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271887
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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.
Addison, John T.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2002
Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation –...
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