This study investigates the impact of anti-sweatshop activism on garment industry employment and the number of firms in Bangladesh following the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster. The disaster led to activism that created two major brand-enforced factory fire and safety agreements. We employ a...

In dem Beitrag wird die Entwicklung einer europaeischen Strategie von Standortvertretern innerhalb eines Europaeischen Betriebsrates dargestellt. Am Beispiel von General Motors werden die Schwierigkeiten des Interessenausgleichs zwischen west- und osteuropaeischen Standorten in Folge von...

Arbeitsbedingungen einschliesslich der Sozialbeziehungen im Betrieb beeinflussen die Haeufigkeit und Laenge der krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten. Gegenstand der folgenden Untersuchung sind die Ursachen der hoeheren Krankenstandsquoten von aelteren Beschaeftigten, und insbesondere, ob die...

The aim of the working paper is to address the characterization and determinants of job satisfaction for knowledge-based workers in Spain. To do this, micro data of 8,061 workers from the 2010 Survey of Quality of Life at Work was used for empirical analysis. Regarding job satisfaction, the...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine various configurations leading to job satisfaction (JS) in Mongolian private companies through five typical factors: perceived mission statement quality (MSQ), romanticism management philosophy (RMP), psychological ethical climate (PEC), ethical...

This study examines work orientations as a novel determinant influencing job search behaviors, quit intentions, and workplace effort, thereby integrating this concept into the field of labor economics. Work orientations, the intrinsic beliefs regarding the role of work in one's life, relate to...

This letter adds to the literature on the importance of telework experience in employee evaluation by leveraging the telework experience accumulated during the COVID-19 crisis. We conducted a follow-up survey on the evaluation of telework exactly three years after our initial data collection in...

This study examines work orientations as a novel determinant influencing job search behaviors, quit intentions, and workplace effort, thereby integrating this concept into the field of labor economics. Work orientations, the intrinsic beliefs regarding the role of work in one's life, relate to...

This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Condition Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our...

Work-from-home possibilities are lower in developing than in developed countries. Within countries, not all workers have equal chances of transitioning from the usual workplace to work-from-home. Moreover, infrastructure limitations and lack of access to certain services can limit the chances of...