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A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh
Miller, Grant; Biswas, Debashish; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Globally, coercive labor (i.e., forced, bonded, and/or trafficked labor) and child labor are disproportionately prevalent in environments with weak regulatory enforcement and state capacity. Effective strategies for addressing them may therefore need to align with the private incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056155
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Building sustainable organizations : the human factor
Pfeffer, Jeffrey - 2010
human and social environment as well. This article briefly reviews the literature on the direct and indirect effects of … social sustainability has received relatively short shrift in management writing, and outlines a research agenda for … investigating the links between social sustainability and organizational effectiveness as well as the role of ideology in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003955414
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How are work-related characteristics linked to sickness absence and presenteeism? : theory and data
Arnold, Daniel; De Pinto, Marco - 2015
This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a work-related factor decreases the level of absence and simultaneously increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381939
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How are work-related characteristics linked to sickness absence and presenteeism? : Theory and Data
Arnold, Daniel; De Pinto, Marco - 2015
This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a work-related factor decreases the level of absence and simultaneously increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349040
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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure
Johnston, Andrew C. - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837321
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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure
Johnston, Andrew C. - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting talented teachers and fostering retention, both made possible by appealing to worker preferences. I use a discrete-choice experiment to estimate preferences for a comprehensive set of workplace attributes including compensation structure, working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842229
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How are Work-Related Characteristics Linked to Sickness Absence and Presenteeism? – Theory and Data
Arnold, Daniel - 2015
This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a work-related factor decreases the level of absence and simultaneously increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010813
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What does codetermination do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550209
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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221177
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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure
Johnston, Andrew - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201018