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Privatisation Experiences in France
Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 1, pp. 33-40
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …
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Working in family firms: less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2011
show that family firms pay on average lower wages. We find that part of this wage gap is due to low wage workers sorting … account for a substantial part of the inverse relationship between the family/non-family gaps in wages and job security. …
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Working in family firms: less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2011
show that family firms pay on average lower wages. We find that part of this wage gap is due to low wage workers sorting … account for a substantial part of the inverse relationship between the family/non-family gaps in wages and job security. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386348
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The Evolution of the Modern Worker: Attitudes to Work
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
This paper examines how employees' experiences of, and attitudes towards, work have changed over the last quarter of a century. It assesses the extent to which any developments relate to the economic cycle and to trends in the composition of the British workforce. Many of the findings are...
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The decline of job security in the 1990s: displacement, anxiety, and their effect on wage growth
Aaronson, Daniel; Sullivan, Daniel G. - In: Economic Perspectives (1998) Q I, pp. 17-43
This article shows that job displacement rates for high-seniority workers and a consistently constructed measure of workers' fears of job loss both rose during the 1990s. It then explores the relationship between these measures of job displacement and worker anxiety and wage growth.
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Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
inequality between permanent and contract workers, since contract workers earn substantially lower wages than their counterpart …
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Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries
Bhandari, Amit; Heshmati, Almas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
inequality between permanent and contract workers, since contract workers earn substantially lower wages than their counterpart …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771026
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ON THE EFFECTS OF REDUCING THE GOVERNMENT`S ROLE IN THE LABOUR MARKET: A STYLIZED MODEL FOR EGYPT WITH SOME NUMERICAL POLICY EXAMPLES
Risager, Ole; Yang, Chang-Po - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 1999
This paper analyzes the consequences of pursuing a less activist Government <p> employment stabilization policy strategy in Egypt. On the basis of a fairly stylized model we <p> find that a reduction of the Government’s involvement in the economy along with an <p> introduction of mild but binding...</p></p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419427
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Worker insecurity and aggregate wage growth
Aaronson, Danial; Sullivan, Daniel G. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1999
To adequately evaluate claims that increased worker insecurity had reduced wage growth in the 1990s, research must answer two questions: (1) Has worker insecurity increase?, and (2) Does worker insecurity reduce wage growth? Examining data on displacement rates from the Displaced Workers Surveys...
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