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"How Many Hours Would you Want to Work a Week?": Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models
Steiber, Nadia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017463
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Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts
Drago, Robert; Wooden, Mark; Black, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Panel data from Australia are used to study the prevalence of work hours mismatch among long hours workers and, more importantly, how that mismatch persists and changes over time, and what factors are associated with these changes. Particular attention is paid to the roles played by household...
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Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Drago, Robert; Wooden, Mark; Black, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We consider desires for flexibility in weekly hours by analyzing changes in work hours preferences using four years of … data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We control for work hours preferences in … hours preferences. Our findings reveal that, in general, women are more sensitive to life events than men. Women’s preferred …
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...
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Improving the Administrative Organization of the Labor Market in the Current Conditions
Beleva, Iskra - In: Economic Studies journal (2008) 2, pp. 60-90
The study discusses the administrative organization of the labor market in Bulgaria from point of view of its structure, functionality, management and capacity. The study makes a review of the scientific discussion regarding the place and role of the institutions and the labor market, in...
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Labor contracts and social insurance participation among migrant workers in China
Gao, Qin; Yang, Sui; Li, Shi - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 4, pp. 1195-1205
Using the China Household Income Project migrant survey data from 2007 to 2008, this paper examines the association between migrant workers' labor contract status and their social insurance participation, including pensions, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, and...
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Unionism: the end of a balanced power?
Sampaio, José João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Departing from a stable industrial relationship, supported by logic of economic massification and the correspondent legal framework, it is our objective to approach the new industrial relations environment, emerging from the modifications on the enterprise organisation models, towards the new...
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America’s Human Capital Paradox
Kochan, Thomas A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2012
It is widely recognized that human capital is essential to sustaining a competitive economy at high and rising living standards. Yet acceptance of persistent high unemployment, stagnant wages, and other indicators of declining job quality suggests that policymakers and employers undervalue human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567195
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High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark
Cristini, Annalise; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2011
High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive eects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After showing that organizational innovation is indeed positively associated with rm performance, we investigate whether high-involvement work practices...
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High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark
Cristini, Annalisa; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive effects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After assessing the correlation between organizational innovation and firm performance, this article investigates whether high-involvement work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796446