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This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on …
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This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
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Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that a...
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, there is only evidence of a causal relationship in terms of the latter, where the impact of disability is found to be …
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We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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Britain has lagged behind the G7 countries in labour productivity in recent years. There is also an emerging concern about a potential post-Brexit skills deficit. Upskilling the existing workforce via on-the-job training may be a vital policy tool available. Using a panel of organisations and...
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-the-job-leisure, the higher the levels of stress during their work tasks. A back-of-the-envelope calculation based on time use data over … related to increases in worker stress. In analyzing workers' effort and stress during market work activities we contribute to …
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been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s … – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In this contribution, we chart these changes along the dimensions of … notion that stronger unions have a beneficial impact, yet weaker ones do not. …
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Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not … measures training. The direct impact of works councils remains positive but becomes insignificant if Lewbel's instrumental …
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Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less productive than their correctly allocated colleagues. However, the results obtained in the present study contradict the...
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