Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,804
Cover Image
Monopoly power upon the world of work : a workplace analysis in the logistic segment under automation
Cirillo, Valeria; Massimo, Francesco; Rinaldini, Matteo; … - 2023
, particularly in the context of automation processes. We conduct a fieldwork analysis of three workplaces situated in Italy, each …; and a novel form of digital monopoly that holds control over intangibles and exhibits monopsonistic control over labour … the implementation of automation technology, such as Automated Guided Vehicles. Employing a qualitative analysis that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439460
Cover Image
Routinization of work processes, de-routinization of job structures
Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Bisello, Martina; Peruffo, … - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 3, pp. 1773-1794
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318913
Cover Image
Tasks At Work : Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Kong, Fredric; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
central role of automation and new tasks in recent labor market trends. We also explain how general equilibrium effects … range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of different skill types or to capital. Factors of production have well …-defined comparative advantage across tasks, which governs the pattern of substitution between skill groups. Technological change can: (1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056199
Cover Image
Measuring work and workers: Wearables and digital assistance systems in manufacturing and logistics
Krzywdzinski, Martin; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Evers, Maren; … - 2022
The smart glove or smart data glasses: Digitalization of work means that technology is moving closer to the bodies of employees. It can make movements, vital signs and even emotions visible. Technologies which many people use privately to monitor their sporting activities or health opens up a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175329
Cover Image
Measuring work and workers : wearables and digital assistance systems in manufacturing and logistics
Krzywdzinski, Martin; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Evers, Maren; … - 2022
The smart glove or smart data glasses: Digitalization of work means that technology is moving closer to the bodies of employees. It can make movements, vital signs and even emotions visible. Technologies which many people use privately to monitor their sporting activities or health opens up a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170614
Cover Image
Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover : Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cottini, Elena - 2009
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153496
Cover Image
Has ‘Discretionary Learning’ Declined During the Lisbon Agenda? A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study of Work Organisation in European Nations
Holm, Jacob - 2014
This paper explores changes in the organisation of work in European nations over 2000-2010. Results show a decline in the Discretionary Learning (DL). Periods of economic expansion tend to be DL enhancing, while periods of economic stagnation tend to reinforce the use of more hierarchical forms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048374
Cover Image
Fixed-term employment, work organization and job satisfaction : evidence from German individual-level data
Beckmann, Michael; Cornelißen, Thomas; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2009
The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organization on job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of the type of working contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662774
Cover Image
What if your boss is a woman? : work organization, work-life balance and gender discrimination at the workplace
Lucifora, Claudio; Vigani, Daria - 2016
In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452441
Cover Image
What If Your Boss is a Woman? Work Organization, Work-Life Balance and Gender Discrimination at the Workplace
Lucifora, Claudio - 2016
In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999001