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Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
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Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five …. British workplaces appear to be responding slowly and perhaps disingenuously to pressures to enhance family-friendly work …
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Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...
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This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily … on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity …, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce …
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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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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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continental Europe, this proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey …
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The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This paper addresses this puzzle. Data from the Current...
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This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain, I employ econometric techniques that account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find...
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British emigrants for longer than most, the ?deglobalisation? of British labour only dates from the 1960s. Since that time … there has been a secular fall in British emigration, and this has been a major component in the transformation of the UK … British emigration can be clearly identified. The same effects, applied to the later period, suggest that mass emigration from …
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