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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2004

aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker …

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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010

The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...

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Disability and skill mismatch

Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace …

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Peer salaries and employee satisfaction in the workplace

Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - 2012

We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour...

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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These high-performance work systems are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show experimentally...

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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - 2009

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace

Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Mental health and working conditions in European countries

Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010

Conditions Survey (1995, 2000, 2005) to document recent patterns in mental health at the workplace and to assess how these are … related to various job attributes. We find substantial heterogeneity in mental health incidence at the workplace both across … workplace attributes, such as: working in shifts, performing complex and intensive tasks and having restricted job autonomy lead …

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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2003

In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...

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