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The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...
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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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Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, Niveaus und Bestimmungsfaktoren der Arbeitszufriedenheit von abhängig Beschäftigten in … Wohlfahrtsstaaten zeigen, dass die Erklärungsmuster der Arbeitszufriedenheit nicht einheitlich sind. Über alle Länder zeigt sich ein …
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Civil servants in Germany are commonly considered to have special privileges particularly with regard to their employment conditions. This belief is based on the fact that German civil servants ('Beamte') cannot be discharged, which is an aspect of their employment relationship that attracts...
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for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behavior. …
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The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment …
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Arbeitsbedingungen. …
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leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women … who specialized in household production, with no market work. Only women who were unemployed reported lower levels of life …
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This thesis analyses the working situation of women in engineering jobs in Austria. This is an important issue since … disadvantages for women, some of them being less income, bad career chances and less job security. This particular working field has … security, high incomes and others, women are especially less represented at these jobs. Additionally the working situation in …
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