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Occupational Change in Britain and Germany

Longhi, Simonetta; Brynin, Malcolm - 2009

We use British and German panel data to analyse job changes involving a change in occupation. We assess: (1) the extent of occupational change, taking into account the possibility of measurement error in occupational codes; (2) whether job changes within the occupation differ from occupation...

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Maternal Labor Market Return, Parental Leave Policies, and Gender Inequality in Housework

Schober, Pia S. - 2011

Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of …

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The Anglo-German industrial productivity paradox, 1895-1938: a restatement and a possible resolution

Ritschl, Albrecht - 2006

Recent research on international productivity comparisons with historical data has encountered large discrepancies between benchmark comparisons and time series extrapolations from other benchmarks. Broadberry and Burhop (2005) have recently argued that for Hoffmann's (1965) widely accepted time...

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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards

Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2009

Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...

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Can the changing nature of jobs account for national trends in job satisfaction?

Green, Francis; Tsitsianis, Nicholas - 2004

by changes in the quality of jobs. There were falls in job satisfaction in both Britain and Germany. Elsewhere job … satisfaction, in order to attempt to account statistically for trends in job satisfaction in Britain and in Germany. We find that …: The intensification of work effort and declining task discretion account for the fall in job satisfaction in Britain. The …

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