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Job satisfaction and flexicurity over the business cycle: evidence from Swiss individual-level data

Baruffini, Moreno; Origo, Federica - 2014

The effects on employment of the recent economic crisis have become evident and persistent in many OECD countries, exacerbating on the one hand the demand for more flexibility by the firms; on the other the need to ensure workers security. 'Flexicurity', an institutional frame implementing a...

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Self-managed working time and firm performance: Microeconometric evidence

Beckmann, Michael - 2016

This paper empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. As a policy for the decentralization of decision rights, SMWT provides employees with extensive control over scheduling individual working time. From a...

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Human Resources Management: Current Issues

Barišić, Anton Florijan; Klopotan, Igor; Miloloža, Ivan - 2019

Human resources management (HRM) as a function providing organizations with workforce and thus assisting the achievement of organization’s business strategy is an inevitable element of contemporary organisation’s arrangements. Passing through different stages from conventional one to...

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Foundation owned firms - a delegation approach

Mühlbauer, Stefan - 2016

Foundation owned firms are an interesting research object to test ownership influence on firms' performance. Research claims that the foundation as an organization without natural owner leads to significant agency cost because there is no residual claimant with an incentive to control....

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Female firm leadership. Extent and performance in 14 EU member states

Theune, Katja; Behr, Andreas - 2016

Evidence on female firm leadership is scarce and often confined to a small number of firms included in share price indices. Our large firm level data set from 2011 contains 441287 firms from 14 EU states. Based on management information, we provide evidence for the extent and the performance of...

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The aims of lifelong learning: Age-related effects of training on wages and job security

Lang, Julia - 2012

This paper reports the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees...

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Tasks, Employment and Wages: An Analysis of the German Labor Market from 1979 to 2012

Pikos, Anna Katharina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015

The literature has found evidence for a wage polarization depending on routine and non-routine working tasks. Using unique German survey data we ask whether wage polarization coincides with polarization in job satisfaction. First, we find that contrary to what polarization predicts, routine...

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Compensating Wage Differentials, Sorting into Occupations and Job Tasks

Fedorets, Alexandra - 2016

The theory of wage premia for job disamenities exhibits mixed evidence in empirical analysis. In the current study, I employ a rich data set of workplace attributes for 1979-2012 in Germany to show that only those disagreeable workplace characteristics that are related to non-routine cognitive...

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Job performance and mental health in workforce in north macedonia during COVD-19 pandemic

Pesevska, Dimitrinka Jordanova; Misoska, Ana Tomovska; … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major public health disaster having significant influence on economic, mental health and well-being of entire world population including North Macedonia. The existing literature is suggesting changes in the work performance and job satisfaction influencing mental...

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Teleworking - Just a legal opportunity or basis for redefining the concept of labor relations during COVID-19 and in the post pandemic period

Trajkova, Kate; Andonov, Marko; Misoska, Ana Tomovska; … - 2021

reconceptualization of the work engagement. The implementation of the concept of teleworking (telecommuting) in absence of a legal … concept of teleworking and its operationalization by the employers in absence of a legal framework. The comparative analysis … attention will be paid to whether the concept of teleworking with all its negative and positive consequences should remain a …

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