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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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Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia
Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla; Dehejia, Rajeev - 2016
A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...
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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...
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Socially Useless Jobs
Dur, Robert; van Lent, Max - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
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The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis
Grund, Christian; Minten, Axel; Toporova, Nevena - 2017
We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of …,000 temporary agency workers, a subjective motivation appraisal is provided by the respective direct manager within the hiring … motivation of temporary agency workers. Women in temporary agency work demonstrate a higher degree of motivation than men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816501
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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003
Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...
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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution: Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2013
We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....
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Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2015
We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...
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