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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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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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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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Overemployment, i.e., the preference for fewer work hours, is a widespread phenomenon in western societies, which may have negative consequences for individual well-being and organizational functioning. Previously overemployment has been defi ned from an economic perspective mainly as a...
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We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the choice of relevant comparison group is affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour...
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This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...
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In the 1997 and 1998 waves of the British Household Panel Survey, workers are asked to assess their level of job security in terms of the probability of becoming unemployed within the next year. We examine whether these perceptions of insecurity are purely subjective or are systematically...
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In this paper, we directly test Becker?s theory of employee discrimination using matched worker-workplace data from … proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employees? wages should also increase with the concentration … racial prejudice at the workplace or employees? feelings concerning job security. …
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This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of perceived well-being, the winners in...
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