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Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
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Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that a...
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The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
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company employment practices where we can observe growing reliance on mechanisms of internal flexibility for the skilled core …
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perspective taking into account different channels of external, internal and wage flexibility determined by both the institutional … permanent and temporary jobs, working time adjustment, wage flexibility and active and passive labour market policies. The paper … internal flexibility. At the same time, however, it appears that the crisis has – at least in some cases – contributed to a …
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For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour … issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among …
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This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm’s use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that...
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substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility …
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The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
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of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility …-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the varying institutional configurations by which flexibility is achieved. In order … to capture different patterns of flexibility, we differentiate between five types of flexibility which can be combined …
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