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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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Age-dependent employment protection
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2008
This paper examines the age-related design of firing taxes by extending the theory of job creation and job destruction to account for a finite working life-time. We first argue that the potential employment gains related to employment protection are high for older workers, but higher firing...
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Understanding the outcomes of older job losers
Brzozowski, Matthew; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2010
We use an unusually rich Canadian survey to examine how post-job-loss behaviour and outcomes vary with age of the job loser. We find that older job losers experience greater post-displacement joblessness, and are less likely to return quickly to satisfactory employment. We show that this...
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Patterns of retirement as reflected in income tax records for older workers
Denton, Frank T.; Finnie, Ross; Spencer, Byron G. - 2009
If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement requires a definition of substantial and sufficient observations of the same individuals to determine whether a transition from working to retired status has occurred. Using the...
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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010
In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...
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Are young and old workers harmful for firm productivity?
Lallemand, Thierry; Rycx, François - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of the workforce age structure on the productivity of large Belgian firms. More …
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Alterung und technologisches Innovationspotential : Eine Linked-Employer-Employee-Analyse
Schneider, Lutz - 2007
question rises, whether the trend of an ageing workforce will affect the innovation capacities of these economies. To answer … this question, the paper examines on the basis of a German linked-employer-employee-dataset, whether an older workforce …
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Age, wage and productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276096
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Age, wage and productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276121
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Gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the employees
Channar, Zahid Ali; Abbassi, Zareen; Ujan, Imran Anwar - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 1, pp. 177-191
This research paper explores the issue of gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the satisfaction and … motivation, commitment and enthusiasm and stress level of employees. Close ended questionnaire was administered from 526 males … Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts. Gender discrimination in workforce was measured through independent samples-t test. The …
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