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Informality and exclusion: Evidence from matched employer-employee data for Lebanon and Syria
Alloush, Mohamad; Chartouni, Carole; Gatti, Roberta; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
Informality, measured as the share of the employed who do not have access to social security, is high in Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic. This paper uses new data from the 2010 Lebanon and Syria matched employer-employee surveys, which include modules that directly test for ability (Raven's...
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„Sekretärin des Vorstandes“ gesucht: Stellenanzeigen und die expressive Funktion des AGG
Bauhoff, Frauke; Schneider, Martin - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 20 (2013) 1, pp. 54-76
Das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG) verändert die Formulierung von Stellenanzeigen nicht durch Zwang oder die Furcht vor hohem Schadenersatz, sondern durch verschiedene soziale Effekte, die unter dem Stichwort der „expressiven Funktion“ des Rechts zusammengefasst werden. Die Idee...
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Same same but different: Changing career expectations in Germany?
Kattenbach, Ralph; Lücke, Janine; Schlese, Michael; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 4, pp. 292-312
Contemporary career research assumes more flexible career patterns implying increased job mobility. However, there is growing doubt that the proclaimed change is as drastic as has been suggested. We provide empirical evidence on career expectations in Germany between 1999 and 2009, arguing that...
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Hiring and retaining skilled employees in SMEs: Problems in human resource practices and links with organizational success
Bilan, Yuriy; Mishchuk, Halyna; Roshchyk, Iryna; Joshi, … - In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 21 (2020) 2, pp. 780-791
The ability to attract and retain the talents is an important factor in the competitiveness of countries, as it is confirmed in our study. At the level of small and medium-sized enterprises, hiring and retaining skilled workers is one of the most difficult tasks of HR management, especially in...
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Does working at a start-up pay off?
Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2021) 4, pp. 2211-2233
(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …
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Enforcement of labor market regulations: Heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
Viollaz, Mariana - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 7 (2018) 2, pp. 1-28
This paper explores microdata from Argentine household surveys to analyze how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly decentralized labor inspection system in Argentina, I construct...
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Sickness-related Absenteeism and Economic Incentives in Sweden: A History of Reforms
Andrén, Daniela - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 3, pp. 54-60
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Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation: Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to test the role of unemployment as … unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find a strong negative association between unemployment and absenteeism rate …
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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training
Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14
male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …
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Employment protection legislation in transition and emerging markets
Muravyev, Alexander - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
necessarily increasing general unemployment. However, recent evidence from transition and emerging economies shows that employment … protection legislation tends to raise unemployment among disadvantaged groups, particularly youth, and may increase informal work …
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