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Short hours, long hours: Hour levels and trends in the retail industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Carré, Françoise; Tilly, Chris - 2012
Canada, the United States, and Mexico. We analyze the retail sector, which is of interest because of its high rate of part …-time employment in the U.S. Based on our fieldwork in the United States and Mexico and qualitative literature on Canadian retail work … and Canada on the one hand and Mexico on the other. We provide additional context for these findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287962
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Short hours, long hours : hour levels and trends in the retail industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Carré, Françoise J.; Tilly, Chris - 2012
; Canada ; job quality ; Mexico ; part-time ; retail ; schedule ; working hours … Canada, the United States, and Mexico. We analyze the retail sector, which is of interest because of its high rate of part …-time employment in the U.S. Based on our fieldwork in the United States and Mexico and qualitative literature on Canadian retail work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534962
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Short Hours, Long Hours : Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Wyrwa, Richard; Tilly, Chris - 2012
Canada, the United States, and Mexico. We analyze the retail sector, which is of interest because of its high rate of part …-time employment in the U.S. Based on our fieldwork in the United States and Mexico and qualitative literature on Canadian retail work … and Canada on the one hand and Mexico on the other. We provide additional context for these findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169789
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Fear of Labor Rigidities – The Role of Expectations in Employment Growth in Peru
Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on...
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Non-standard employment, working time arrangements, establishment entry and exit
Späth, Jochen - 2013
This paper addresses the issue if and to what extent young firms differ from incumbents regarding the use of non-standard employment, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours in the light of the qualitative changes of employment structures that are taking place in industrialized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211158
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Job quality between institutional differences and convergence
Hauff, Sven; Kirchner, Stefan - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 21 (2014) 4, pp. 352-370
The alignment of workplace situation and work values is an important indicator of job quality. From an international comparative perspective, it can be assumed that countries differ regarding the respective mismatch levels owing to institutional differences. However, these differences may be...
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Job quality between institutional differences and convergence
Hauff, Sven; Kirchner, Stefan - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 4, pp. 352-370
The alignment of workplace situation and work values is an important indicator of job quality. From an international comparative perspective, it can be assumed that countries differ regarding the respective mismatch levels owing to institutional differences. However, these differences may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961570
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How good are manufacturing jobs in Myanmar? Evidence from matched employer-employee data
Falco, Paolo; Gioia, Francesca; Trifkovic, Neda - 2021
The quality of people's jobs is a fundamental determinant of their well-being, and judging the state of a labour market on the basis of job quantity alone delivers a very partial picture. This study is an attempt to place the spotlight on the working conditions of workers in the Myanmar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651161
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How good are manufacturing jobs in Myanmar? : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Falco, Paolo; Gioia, Francesca; Trifkovic, Neda - 2021
The quality of people's jobs is a fundamental determinant of their well-being, and judging the state of a labour market on the basis of job quantity alone delivers a very partial picture. This study is an attempt to place the spotlight on the working conditions of workers in the Myanmar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545674
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Quality of Work: The Case of Part-Time Work in Italy
Burchell, Brendan J. - In: Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case …
The focus of this chapter is on the quality of part-time and full time employment by using available European datasets with a special attention to the Italian case. The evidence provided shows that one needs to be very cautious in generalizing about part-time employment in the EU when the...
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