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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...

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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

Chor, Davin; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum). Although our pool of respondents differs greatly from the conservative … foundations and business leaders who contribute respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and …

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Observations on International Labor Standards and Trade

Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper reviews the theoretical arguments for and against linking international labor standards to trade. Based on theory alone it is difficult to generalize about the effect of labor standards on efficiency and equity. Some economists have argued that international labor standards are merely...

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Skill-Specific Rather then General Education : A Reason for Us-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2021

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …

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The Disability Employment Puzzle : A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior

Ameri, Mason - 2015

People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a contributing factor. Following the method of Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003), new evidence is presented from a field experiment that sent applications in response to 6,016...

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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake

Karabay, Bilgehan - 2010

We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and...

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Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

Levitt, Steven D. - 2010

The "Hawthorne effect," a concept familiar to all students of social science, has had a profound influence both on the direction and design of research over the past 75 years. The Hawthorne effect is named after a landmark set of studies conducted at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s. The first...

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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages

Maestas, Nicole - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature and quality of the social context at work, at home, and in the community. While earlier studies have found...

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...

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