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Using the merged monthly Labour Force Survey from 2006 through 2018, we employ a variety of techniques to address the pay gap for males and females between four definitions of the public sector and the private sector, as well as the gender pay gap within each of these five sectors. We find that...
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Lohnzuschüsse für Niedriglohn-Jobs sind ein Instrument der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik, um die berufliche Integration Geringqualifizierter und Langzeitarbeitsloser zu fördern. Der Autor stellt die Hypothese auf, dass durch die staatliche Lohnsubvention, auch wenn sich hierdurch der...
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This paper argues that employers should adopt practices that provide employees with opportunities to exercise voice. Time and time again, we see corporate scandals that could have been avoided if employees were encouraged to speak up when they saw problems in the workplace. Recent scandals...
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This paper is about public sector pensions, an issue that has become increasingly contentious in a number of countries in recent years, including in the United Kingdom. In the UK the public debate has focussed on the perceived generosity of these pensions, which, it is often claimed, contrasts...
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New development solves housing problems for some workers by creating new jobs that pay sustaining wages. At the same time, it creates additional demand for affordable housing because some of the workers who will be employed will not earn enough money to afford market-rate rental housing. In...
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Major crises, such as wars and pandemics, have often been the occasion for radical reconstruction of the welfare system. It is very likely that the COVID-19 pandemic will also do this because it will bring discontent with the existing system to a head and reveal ts weaknesses, particularly as...
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In the last thirty years, economists and other social scientists have investigated people’s normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people’s normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance. Using insights from moral...
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In the last thirty years, economists and other social scientists have investigated people's normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people's normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance. Using insights from moral philosophy...
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The field of behavioural ethics seeks to clarify how people behave when confronted with ethicaldilemmas. It has … the subject of significant study. The question examined here is how applyingbehavioural ethics to employment law can cast … employment law can benefit from taking behavioural ethics into account …
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