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This paper investigates the impact of perceived job autonomy on job satisfaction. We use the fifth sweep of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988-2000), which contains personally reported job satisfaction data for a sample of individuals eight years after the end of compulsory...
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In this paper we analyse the magnitude, timing, determinants and outcomes of dropping out of post-compulsory education over the period 1985-94. We use data from the Youth Cohort Surveys for England and Wales to estimate non-parametric single and competing risks duration models allowing for the...
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and workers' overall job satisfaction and their satisfaction with pay. To investigate these issues we use British data from the 'Changing Employment Relationships, Employment Contracts and the Future...
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We utilise a unique matched teacher-school data set of absenteeism records to quantify shirking behaviour in primary and secondary schools. Shirking behaviour is shown to vary systematically across schools, and hence schools are characterised as either healthy (low absenteeism) or sick (high...
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A standard finding in the literature on gender wage gaps is that the public sector exhibits much lower gaps than in the private sector. This finding is generally attributed to the existence of less gender discrimination in the public sector. In this paper we show that this conclusion is flawed...
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Indigenous minority groups in countries such as the US, Canada and Australia are amongst the most disadvantaged minority groups in the de-veloped world. This disadvantage is strongly associated with 'pre-market' factors. This paper examines pre-market disadvantage of indigenous Australians by...
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We utilise a unique matched teacher-school data set of absenteeism records to quantify shirking behaviour in primary and secondary schools. Shirking behaviour is shown to vary systematically across schools, and hence schools are characterised as either healthy (low absenteeism) or sick (high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541227
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Social exclusion is an important economic, political and social problem that renders a substantial proportion of the population disadvantaged, disenfranchised and disaffected. Our aim in this empirical paper is to assess how social exclusion arises in the context of labour market transition...
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