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Fear of Labor Rigidities – The Role of Expectations in Employment Growth in Peru
Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …
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Long Workweeks and Strange Hours
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
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Long work hours and health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: China Economic Review 33 (2015) C, pp. 212-229
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
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Terms and Conditions of Self-Employment: A Gender Perspective
Mångs, Andreas - Centrum för arbetsmarknadspolitisk forkskning (CAFO), … - 2012
2009. The survey’s primary purpose was to provide information about the terms and conditions in self-employment relative to … wage-employment and about the reasons for taking up self-employment. In addition, the survey included questions related to … household characteristics at the time of first entry into self-employment. The results show that, with regard to working time …
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Ordinary Atypical Workers, Participation within the Firm and Innovation: A Theoretical Endeavor and Empirical Outlook
Torka, Nicole; Looise, Jan Kees; Zagelmeyer, Stefan - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 3, pp. 221-239
This paper offers a theoretical exploration and empirical outlook towards a triptych heretofore not properly investigated: atypical work (e.g., self-employed, agency workers, and workers with a fixed-term contract), participation within the firm, and innovation. How, it must be asked, can and...
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Active Ageing Beyond the Labour Market: Evidence on Work Environment Motivations
Pollak, Catherine; Sirven, Nicolas - Institut de Recherche et de Documentation en Économie … - 2012
“Active Ageing” strategies aim to foster the participation of seniors in the society. Although economic literature has extensively studied the incentives for seniors to increase their labour supply, little is known about the motivations for older people to complement labour with other forms...
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The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools
Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these...
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und flexible Arbeitszeiten – Empirische Analyse mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
Hanglberger, Dominik - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2010
This study analyses how different working hours arrangements influence the subjective job satisfaction. The paper contributes to the existing literature dealing with job satisfaction by including information on the flexibility of working hour arrangements and the compensation for working...
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Effekte einer freiwilligen Mitgliedschaft in Berufsverbänden auf das Einkommen - Eine Analyse der Einkommensdynamik bei Freiberuflern in Deutschland
Rucha, Rafael - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2010
Central question in our analysis is if voluntarily organised Professions, i.e. self-employed Liberal Professions (Freiberufler) in professional organisations, yield a higher income than those not associated to any professional organisation. To answer this question four waves from the German...
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