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Decent work and the quality of work and employment
Green, Francis - 2021
This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the narrower concept of 'job quality'. The key axiom is that 'quality' relates to the extent and manner in which working conditions meet people's needs from work. The review emphasises...
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage...
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Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?
Pencavel, John H. - 2015
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Workers and labour market outcomes of informal jobs in formal employment : a job-based informality for nine sub-saharan African countries
Tijdens, Kea Gartje; Besamusca, Janna; Klaveren, Maarten van - 2013
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Vacation leave, work hours and wages : new evidence from linked employer-employee data
Fakih, Ali - 2014
wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the US, using individual level data, have revealed that annual …
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Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?
Pencavel, John H. - 2015
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
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Telework and time use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well as its impacts on traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions … consequently earn higher wages, except for mothers who are willing to accept lower pay for the option to work from home. Finally …
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : strictly controlling overtime hours and pay does not boost employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Sagyndykova, Galiya - 2020
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252951
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Telework and time use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697778
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Working from home : heterogeneous effects on hours worked and wages
Arntz, Melanie; Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco - 2019
mothers. Hourly wages, however, increase with WfH take-up among fathers, but not among mothers unless they change employer …
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