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The impact of flexible working arrangements on work-life conflict and work pressure in Ireland
Russell, Helen; O'Connell, Philip J.; McGinnity, Frances - 2007
Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment, and this has led to a significant increase in the proportion of dual-earner families. These changes have brought the issue of reconciliation between work and care commitments to...
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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? Cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
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Subjective employment insecurity around the world
Green, Francis - 2008
I consider the concept of employment insecurity and provide new evidence for 1997 and 2005 for many countries with widely differing institutional contexts and at varying stages of development. There are no grounds for accepting that workplaces were going through a sea-change in employment...
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Flexicurity as a Policy Agenda
Auer, Peter; Gazier, Bernard - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 4, pp. 3-8
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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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Labour market institutions and unemployment: An international comparison
Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2011
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2000. In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...
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Globalization and Protection of Employment
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Somogyi, Frank - 2009
Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests this hypothesis in a panel of 28 OECD countries from 1985 to 2003, differentiating between three dimensions of globalization and two labor market segments. While overall...
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The role of educational choice in occupational gender segregation: evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - 2008
period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …
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Gender segregation in the workplace and wage gaps: Evidence from urban Mexico 1994 - 2004
Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008
This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …
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Trends in occupational segregation by gender 1970 - 2009: Adjusting for the impact of changes in the occupational coding system
Blau, Francine D.; Brummund, Peter; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
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