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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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Arbeitgeberentscheidungen ueber betriebsbedingte Kuendigungen. Eine retrospektive Gesetzesfolgenabschaetzung unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung der Sozialauswahl
Schott, Eileen - Rainer Hampp Verlag
Seit Bestehen des Kuendigungsschutzgesetzes wird in Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft ueber seine potenziellen Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt und die Beschaeftigung diskutiert. Das Kernstueck und zugleich den zentralen Streitpunkt bei einer Vielzahl betriebsbedingter Kuendigungen bilden...
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The Contract of Employment: A Study in Legal Evolution
Deakin, S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001
This paper reconstructs the evolutionary path of the contract of employmentin English law. It demonstrates that the contract of employment is a more recent innovation than widely thought, and that its essential features owe as much to legislation as they do to the common law of contract. The...
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Worker information and firm disclosure: Analysis on French linked employer-employee data
Perraudin, Corinne; Petit, Héloïse; Rebérioux, Antoine - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2011
Information disclosure requirements significantly increased in French listed companies in the early 2000s, converging toward the U.S./U.K. stock market standards. Following the burgeoning literature on relations between corporate governance and labor, we investigate the consequences of this...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION TO INCREASE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Achim, Ioan Moise; Dragolea, Larisa; Balan, George - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2013) 15, pp. 32-32
The present study starts from the premise of understanding the concept of‘motivation‘ by everyone, and the importance of this phenomenon, in general. Despite the fact thatit is permanently approached in specialty works, discussed and analyzed at congresses, seminarsand internal meetings,...
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The Assessment of the Employment Relationship by Civil Servants. Theoretical and Empirical Insights from a Study in District Courts in Lower Saxony
Martin, Albert; Falke, Marcus; Gade, Christian - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 18 (2007) 3, pp. 293-321
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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Interdependence as an I(-)Deal: Enhancing Job Autonomy and Distributive Justice via Individual Negotiation
Hornung, Severin; Glaser, Juergen; Rouseau, Denise M. - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 24 (2010) 2, pp. 108-129
Drawing on the concept of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals), the study tests assumptions regarding interdependencies between individuals and organizations in determining work and employment conditions. I-deals are personalized arrangements individual employees negotiate with their employer. We...
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Giving Voice to Employees and Spreading Information within the Firm: the Manner Matters
Valentini, Enzo - Dipartimento di Studi Sullo Sviluppo Economico (DISSE), … - 2011
Economists are paying increasing attention to “factors” in job satisfaction. Job satisfaction can affect productivity, effort, absenteeism, and quits. This paper analyzes data from the “Working in Britain, 2000” questionnaire; the results confirm the effects of individual features on job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019131
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Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Schmitt, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
move to a firm with a works council, report increases in job satisfaction, but do not receive particular wage increases …
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Employee Participation and Wages: An Empirical Investigation with Selectivity Correction
Nandi, Tushar Kanti - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2006
adoption of participatory practices by employers. The estimates indicate wage premium for the employees who work in … participation and wages. The estimates without selectivity correction suggest a lower wage premium than that suggested by … of the participatory practices earn a wage premium of 18%, 32.7% and 55.1%, respectively. The estimates of the …
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