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Heterogeneity in union status and employee well-being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael J. - 2012

This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...

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Monetary reference points of managers: An empirical investigation of status quo preferences and social comparisons

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2012

We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a...

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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health ofWorkers? New Evidence Using Panel Data andObjective Measures of Health

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health ofworkers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addressestwo important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectionalcausality problems and (b)...

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Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants

Epstein, Gil S. - 2000

This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...

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Why are the returns to education higher for entrepreneurs than for employees?

van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van … - 2007

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By … for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent and 9.9 percent, respectively). We perform various analyses in an … attempt to explain the difference. We find (indirect) support for the argument that the higher RTE for entrepreneurs is due to …

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur? Returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees

Hartog, Joop; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings … ability has a stronger impact on entrepreneurial incomes than on wages. Entrepreneurs and employees benefit from different …

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … (indirect) support for the argument that the higher returns to education for entrepreneurs is due to fewer (organizational …

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Self-employment, wage employment and informality in a developing economy

Bennett, John; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2012

We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...

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Employer's information and promotion-seeking activities

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive activity. We consider the effect of an increase in the employer's knowledge (information) regarding...

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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? : The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

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