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The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
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a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private … workers' and firms' behavior. For example, higher nonemployment benefits are shown to increase absenteeism among employed …
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The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...
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particular to assess whether the provision of employment protection induces less effort among workers in the form of absenteeism …. We also discuss how this evidence can be used to estimate what the absenteeism rate would be in Italy if employment …
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a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private … workers? and firms? behavior. For example, higher nonemployment benefits are shown to increase absenteeism among employed …
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In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …
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GWG gets larger with tenure for blue-collar but smaller for white-collar workers; (7) individual absenteeism has no … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … discrimination. A simple model within the context of absenteeism and statistical discrimination is offered. …
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whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance … induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about 0.07. On average, absenteeism would be about 16 percent less if all workers …
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To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...
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This research paper explores the issue of gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the satisfaction and … Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts. Gender discrimination in workforce was measured through independent samples-t test. The …
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