Search Results - subject:"work practices"

Are New Work Practices and New Technologies Biased against Immigrant Workers?

Rosholm, Michael; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

New technologies and new work practices have been introduced and implemented over a broad range in the production …. These results may add support to the hypothesis stating that new technologies and (some) new work practices are biased …

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Innovative Work Practices, Information Technologies and Working Conditions: Evidence for France

Askenazy, Philippe; Caroli, Eve - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working … conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work … practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation, collective discussions on work organization and working time …

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The Determinants of Firm Performance: Unions, Works Councils, and Employee Involvement/High Performance Work Practices

Addison, John T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links … between these two historically separate literatures. The interaction between worker representation and high performance work … practices provides a practical means of peering inside the black box of collective voice, even if there is as yet no well …

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New workplace practices and the gender wage gap

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Tor, Eriksson - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2005

, project organisation and job rotation schemes are the most widely implemented work practices. Wage gains from adopting new …

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The Implicit Costs and Benefits of Family Friendly Work Practices

Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W.S.; Wei, Xiangdong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in which workers provided with such practices face an implicit reduction in their earnings. Using...

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Rethinking the 'Economy' and Uneven Development: Spatial Disparities in Household Coping Capabilities in Contemporary England

Williams, Colin - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 5, pp. 505-516

Williams C. C. (2004) Rethinking the 'economy' and uneven development: spatial disparities in household coping capabilities in contemporary England, Reg. Studies 38, 507-518. Work beyond employment accounts for half of total working time in the advanced economies. In order to more fully...

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Re‐thinking corporate real estate after September 11th

Laing, Andrew M. - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 5 (2003) 4, pp. 273-292

Surveys of corporate real estate executives in North America and elsewhere in the world indicate significant shifts in their thinking in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Aside from the predictably much greater concern with planning for emergency...

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Union Voice

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper offers a critical evaluation of the notion of collective voice, advanced by Freeman and Medoff (1984) in their pioneering contribution What Do Unions Do? It takes note of theoretical and empirical work supportive of/consistent with the collective voice/institutional response model,...

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The Uneven Geographies of Informal Economic Activities: a Case Study of Two British Cities

Williams, Colin C.; Windebank, Jan - In: Work, Employment & Society 16 (2002) 2, pp. 231-250

of households to perform necessary work and household work practices vary across space. We reveal not only the ways in …

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The Impact of Visual Communication Innovations on the Film Industry

CHANDLER, ANNMARIE; BAKER, ELLEN; FISHER, TOM - In: Prometheus 17 (1999) 2, pp. 139-151

concerning facility location, collaborative work practices, and the scheduling of production activities. The findings identified …

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