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Immobility in travel diary surveys
Madre, Jean-Loup; Axhausen, Kay; Brög, Werner - In: Transportation 34 (2007) 1, pp. 107-128
The share of immobile persons, i.e. persons not leaving their homes on a given reporting day, is both a central result and a prime quality indicator of a travel diary survey. The wide range of values for the share of immobiles reported in travel diary and time budget survey literature has...
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The puzzling persistence of the distance effect on bilateral trade
Disdier, Anne-Celia; Head, Keith - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2008
L’impact négatif de la distance sur le commerce bilatéral constitue l’un des résultats empiriques les plus robustes en économie internationale. Bien que connu, ce résultat n’a cependant fait l’objet d’aucune analyse systématique. Les auteurs examinent 1 467 effets distance...
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How Much Do Cartels Typically Overcharge?
Boyer, Marcel; Kotchoni, Rachidi - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2012
The estimation of cartel overcharges lie at the heart of antitrust policy on cartel proscution as it constitutes a basic element in the determination of fines. Connor and Lande (2008) conducted a survey of cartels and found a mean overcharge estimates in the range of 31% to 49%. By examining...
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And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
Chongvilaivan, Aekapol; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...
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Employee-friendly labour time: a key element to a sustainable pattern of production and consumption
Groezinger, Gerd; Matiaske, Wenzel; Tobsch, Verena - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 4, pp. 357-372
aspired and actually worked weekly hours have a serious negative impact on life, job and health satisfaction. This paper …
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Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What Shapes Workers' Intentions not to Quit the Current Work Environment
Martin G?chter; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2009
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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Retaining the thin blue line: What shapes workers' intentions not to quit the current work environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) May, pp. 479-503
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between workplace factors and the intentions of police officers to quit their current department. Design/methodology/approach – Data from a survey of Baltimore officers, designed to examine the relationship between police...
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Retaining the thin blue line: What shapes workers' intentions not to quit the current work environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) May, pp. 479-503
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between workplace factors and the intentions of police officers to quit their current department. Design/methodology/approach – Data from a survey of Baltimore officers, designed to examine the relationship between police...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685883
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Health Insurance, Familial Responsibilities and Job Satisfaction
Adams, Scott; Artz, Benjamin - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 36 (2015) 1, pp. 143-153
We observed that workers with health insurance provided by their employers reported lower job satisfaction in survey … relationship between health insurance and job satisfaction. The most plausible explanation is that these workers were in suboptimal … labor market situations because of their familial responsibilities to provide health insurance for their family relative to …
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Work—Life Balance and Burnout as Predictors of Job Satisfaction in the IT-ITES Industry
Kanwar, Y. P. S.; Singh, A. K.; Kodwani, A. D. - In: Vision 13 (2009) 2, pp. 1-12
Organisations today strive to augment job satisfaction in the workforce for it is conducive to lower employee turnover, higher engagement and greater productivity. The present study examines the impact of work life balance and burnout on job satisfaction in the context of the Information...
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